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Trypsin: Pancres: Ptyalin: ?
1) Salivary glands 2) Small intestine 3) Gastric juice 4) Liver

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Ptyalin : salivary glands

Trypsin is a pancreatic serine protease with substrate specificity based upon positively charged lysine and arginine side chains . The enzyme in excreted by the pancreas and takes part in the digestion of food proteins and other biological processes.

ptyalin. An amylase present in saliva that catalyzes the hydrolysis of starch into maltose and dextrin. An enzyme found in the saliva of humans and herbivorous animals that helps in the predigestion of starches. Ptyalin is a type of amylase.

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