Pepsina

Pepsina es un enzyma cuje zymogeno (pepsinogeno) es secretate per le cellulas gastric in le stomacho e converte proteinas dietari al peptides.  Illo era discoperite in 1836 per Theodor Schwann qui alsi ha appellate lo, del parola grec  pepsis, "digestion" (de  peptein "digestar").
Isaac Asimov, A short history of biology (p. 95); Greenwood Press, Westport, CT; 1980

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