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Figure 2.

Figure 2

 Digestive pancreatic enzyme response to a regular meal. Enzyme delivery into the duodenum increases rapidly and reaches maximal values within the first postprandial hour or even within 20–30 minutes postprandially. Following peak output, enzyme secretion decreases to almost stable secretory rates at lower levels until about 3–4 hours postprandially depending on the size of the meal. The interdigestive range is reached again at the end of the digestive period.7–13