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Figure 4


Fig. 4. Gastric mucosal pepsin activity and capacity as a function of days postfeeding for Python molurus. Note the rapid postprandial decline in mucosal pepsin, indicating the release of the precursor pepsinogen which is converted to the proteolytic pepsin.