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State the role of pancreatic juice in digestion of proteins.

The enzymes trypsin chymotrypsin and carboxypeptidase, which is present in the pancreatic juice help in the digestion of proteins and the partially hydrolysed proteins, like proteoses and peptones, into dipeptides.

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