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• n  an enzyme of pancreatic origin; catalyzes the hydrolysis of proteins to smaller polypeptide units

• Surgeons at Babies Hospital have devised a daring operation to open the intestine and flush it out with a trypsin solution.
• In two cases where trypsin failed, the empyema was of long standing and the cavity walls had become rigid.
• If this is done, he told his Toledo audience, intramuscular trypsin is "safe and effective.

News & Articles

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• Fate of a Fertilized Egg: Why Some Embryos Don't Implant
  In the study, researchers found that human embryos typically produce a chemical called trypsin, which signals the womb to prepare its lining for implantation. But in embryos with significant genetic abnormalities, this chemical signal was altered, and it produced a stress response in the womb that could make implantation unlikely, the researchers said. The researchers likened this process to an ...
  Feb. 6, 2014 - LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News