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변비에 원인이 되는 단백질 발견

- 피부에서 가벼운 터치나 온도변화를 감지하는 단백질(Piezo2) 발견 업적에 2021년 노벨상이 수여됨.

- 이 단백질이 장에서도 존재&기능하여 장에 음식물이 들어올 시 장 운동을 유도하는 것으로 밝혀짐.

- 이 단백질은 노화가 진행될 수록 그 수가 점점 줄어 드는 것으로 밝혀짐.

- 나이가 들수록 변비가 심해지는 이유도 설명이 가능.

- Gastroenterology 3월 출판

 

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220307113128.htm

 

How a touch-sensing protein could stop constipation

When we eat food, our gut somehow senses its presence to begin shifting it along our digestive tract, but the question has always been -- how? Now, new research using both human gut samples and mice has discovered that a touch-sensing protein called Piezo2

www.sciencedaily.com

 

https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(22)00098-1/fulltext