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Acknowledgments This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant CA190710 and Welch Endowed Chair in Biochemistry, Grant No. BI-0028, at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Digestion and absorption of dietary nutrients constitute the primary physiologic function of…

47.1 An Overview of Protein Digestion and Absorption Amino acids constitute an important class of nutrients obligatory for normal function and survival of mammalian cells. These amino acids are classified as essential and nonessential purely based on whether or not…