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Chymotrypsin

"Chymotrypsin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A serine endopeptidase secreted by the pancreas as its zymogen, CHYMOTRYPSINOGEN and carried in the pancreatic juice to the duodenum where it is activated by TRYPSIN. It selectively cleaves aromatic amino acids on the carboxyl side.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Chymotrypsin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Chymotrypsin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 19 publications over 10 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2004 and 2005
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