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11 years ago
How and why is pepsin important for digestion?
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11 years ago
Starts the digestion of proteins in the stomach prior to complete digestion in the small intestine.
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11 years ago
Pepsin is an enzyme which breaks down protein.
Its essential as it breaks down protein to amino acids which are the building blocks and can be used to make other things in your body like hormones, other enzymes etc.
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11 years ago
"Pepsin is an enzyme that is released by the chief cells in the stomach and which degrades food proteins into peptides."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsin
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