THE RESISTANCE OF LIVING ORGANISMS TO DIGESTION BY PEPSIN OR TRYPSIN

Open Access

20 March 1926

journal article
research article
Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of general physiology

Vol. 9 (4) , 497-502
https://doi.org/10.1085/jgp.9.4.497

Abstract

1. Pepsin and trypsin are quickly removed from solution by dead organisms. They are not able to penetrate into living organisms. 2. Trypsin injected into a living Amœba results in the death and disintegration of the cell.