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Definition of Enterokinase
1. Noun. Enzyme in the intestinal juice that converts inactive trypsinogen into active trypsin.
Definition of Enterokinase
1. Noun. (enzyme) An enzyme, secreted by the upper intestinal mucosa, that catalyzes the activation of trypsinogen by converting it to trypsin ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enterokinase
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Enterokinase
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Enterokinase
Literary usage of Enterokinase
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of physiological chemistry: For Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund SSimon (1904)
"The one is the enterokinase to which I have already referred on several ...
The enterokinase it>elf has no digestive power; it merely activates the trypsin ..."
2. A Text-book of Physiology for Medical Students and Physicians by William Henry Howell (1905)
"The action of the enterokinase seems to be quite specific. According to Bayliss
and Starling, trypsinogen is a stable body which cannot be changed to ..."
3. Text-book of Physiological Chemistry in Thirty Lectures by Emil Abderhalden (1908)
"A preparation of enterokinase may also be obtained by scraping off the superficial
layers of ... The action of the enterokinase may be well shown by taking ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"While there can be no doubt at all of the existence of enterokinase and of its
... From this standpoint the action of the enterokinase upon the trypsinogen ..."
5. A Text-book of physiology for medical students and physicians by William Henry Howell (1913)
"... is not so apparent as in the case of the gastric secretion, but ill doubtless
be made clear by subsequent work. Activation of the Trypsin—enterokinase. ..."
6. Recent Advances in Physiology and Bio-chemistry by Leonard Hill, Benjamin Moore (1908)
"Since the discovery of enterokinase, Vernon has also shown that an inactive ...
This was attributed by Vernon to the presence of an enterokinase different ..."
7. Physiological chemistry: A Text-book and Manual for Students by Albert Prescott Mathews (1916)
"enterokinase.—The duodenal juice is remarkable because of a substance in it called
... enterokinase ..."
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