UC-San Diego: Digestive Enzyme Escaping From the Gut and Into Many Organs May Cause Aging in Rats
October 30, 2024
October 30, 2024
LA JOLLA, California, Oct. 30 (TNSres) -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:
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Researchers showed this mechanism could be transiently stopped by blocking the pancreatic digestive enzyme trypsin
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The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into organs outside the intestine, including the liver, lung, heart, kidney and brain . . .
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Researchers showed this mechanism could be transiently stopped by blocking the pancreatic digestive enzyme trypsin
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The mucosal layer in the small intestine degrades with age in rats, allowing digestive enzymes to slowly escape and leak into organs outside the intestine, including the liver, lung, heart, kidney and brain . . .