Internalization and Transcytosis of Pancreatic Enzymes by the Intestinal Mucosa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As early as the beginning of the twentieth century some data indicated that macromolecules are able to cross the intestinal mucosa to reach the blood. Further evidence was added over the years; however, pathways for this transport still remain to be established. We report here the transfer of two pancreatic enzymes, amylase and lipase, from the intestinal lumen to the blood. Both are present in higher concentrations in the intestinal mucosa and in blood of fed rats. Upon cholinergic stimulation of pancreatic secretion, there was not only an increase in blood enzyme concentrations, but evidence for internalization by duodenal enterocytes was obtained. Following insertion of fluorochrome-tagged amylase and lipase into the duodenal lumen of fasting rats, blood and intestinal tissues were sampled at different time points. Serum activities for both enzymes clearly increased with time. Light microscopy established internalization of both proteins by duodenal enterocytes, and immunogold outlined the pathway taken by both proteins across the enterocytes. From the intestinal lumen, enzymes are channeled through the endosomal compartment to the Golgi apparatus and to the basolateral membrane reaching the interstitial space and blood circulation. Transcytosis through the intestinal mucosa thereby represents an access route for pancreatic enzymes to reach blood circulation.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".