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* Trypsinogen
* Chymotrypsinogen
* Procarboxypolypeptidase
Trypsinogen
When first synthesized in the pancreatic cells, the proteolytic digestive enzymes are in the inactive forms of:
which are all inactive enzymatically. They become activated only after they are secreted into the intestinal tract
- activated by an enzyme called , which is secreted by the
intestinal mucosa when chyme comes in contact with the mucosa
enterokinase
Chymotrypsinogen
- activated by trypsin to form chymotrypsin
Procarboxypolypeptidase
- which is also activated in a similar manner