Definition of Erepsin

1. a mixture of enzymes in the small intestine [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erepsin

eremitages
eremital
eremite
eremites
eremitic
eremitical
eremitish
eremitism
eremitisms
eremophilia
eremophobia
eremuri
eremurus
eremuruses
erenow
erepsin (current term)
erepsins
ereption
eres
erethic
erethism
erethismic
erethisms
erethistic
erethistic shock
erethitic
ereuthophobia
erev
erevs
erewhile

Literary usage of Erepsin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Biochemical Catalysts in Life and Industry by Jean Effront (1917)
"PREPARATION AND PROPERTIES OF erepsin. Salvioli, in 1880, found that the intestinal mucous membrane exerts a very pronounced effect on peptone and that the ..."

2. Organic Agricultural Chemistry (the Chemistry of Plants and Animals): A by Joseph Scudder Chamberlain (1916)
"erepsin differs from the two proteolytic enzymes thus far considered in that its action is almost wholly upon the derived proteins; ..."

3. A Text-book of Physiological Chemistry for Students of Medicine and Physicians by Charles Edmund Simon (1907)
"erepsin.—To isolate the ferment, the intestinal mucosa of recently killed animals is scraped off with a piece of glass, triturated with sand, ..."

4. General Chemistry of the Enzymes by Hans von Euler, Thomas Henry Pope (1912)
"Pressed yeast juice likewise contains much erepsin (Abderhalden). The optimal temperature is about° (in alkaline solution). PROTEOLYTIC ENZYMES OF PLANTS ..."

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