During digestion, if pancreatic duct obstruction prevents trypsinogen activation, which consequence follows in the small intestine?

💡 Explanation

Protein digestion is impaired because trypsinogen's activation into trypsin—a key protease—is blocked; this disrupts the proteolytic cascade necessary for breaking down proteins. Therefore, protein digestion suffers rather than other processes that rely on different enzymes and mechanisms.

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