'Self-Eating' Digestive Enzymes Linked to Shock, Organ Failure (3 of 3) (IMAGE)

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'Self-Eating' Digestive Enzymes Linked to Shock, Organ Failure (3 of 3)

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A healthy intestine with pancreatic digestive enzymes (blue) degrading food inside the lumen of the small intestine (left). Auto-digesting intestine in shock with pancreatic digestive enzymes degrading the small intestine and generating tissue fragments and debris (right). This image relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 23, 2013, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by F.A. DeLano at the University of California, San Diego in La Jolla, Calif., and colleagues was titled, “Pancreatic Digestive Enzyme Blockade in the Intestine Increases Survival After Experimental Shock.”

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