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Digestion of keratine

The_simpsons
in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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Something that crossed my mind recently, can humans digest keratine-proteins (i.e hair and nails) like with other proteins, when they are broken down to individual amino acids?

Well I know they can't digest keratin in hair as I remember a news story where a girl died and they found that a ball (about the size of a small american football) of hair in her stomach.

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