Biology · Biotechnology and its Applications
Why cannot insulin be administered orally to diabetic patients?
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- 1The human body will elicit a strong immune response against it.
- 2It will be digested by proteolytic enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract.✓
- 3Because of structural variation compared to natural insulin.
- 4Its oral bioavailability will be excessively increased causing toxicity.
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It will be digested by proteolytic enzymes in the gastrointestinal tract.
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