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It is a component of gastric juice secreted in young age.It helps in digestion of milk protein.
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A disease in which the stomach fails to secrete its normal gastric juices and eventually atrophies is?
Chronic atrophic gastritis
What is the function of a grasshopper's gastric pouches?
THE GASTRIC CAECA ARE SMALL SAC-LIKE APPENDAGES THAT NORMALLY CONTAIN GASTRIC JUICES THAT ARE INVOLVED IN THE DIGESTION OF FOOD IN THE MID GUT.
What is the enzyme in gastric fluid which coagulates casein?
Rennin
What does rennin do in small children?
Changes liquid milk into a (semi) solid food. When milk is a large part of the diet it is important that it stays in the stomach long enough for the gastric juices to do their job.
What are the three digestive juices?
pepsin , rennin , hydrochloric acid
How can you simulate gastric juices?
The stomach lining contains three types of glands. The pyloric glands, the cardiac gastric glands, secrete mucus that covers the stomach lining and protects it from being digested. The intermediate gastric glands secrete gastric juices that has a pH of 1.5 to 2.5. this pH is do to its high concentration of hydrochloric acid, which kills most bacteria that are swallowed in food. Gastric juices also contains digestive enzyme pepsin. Pepsin is secreted in an inactive form called pepsinogen, which is activated after it is mixed with the hydrochloricacid. Pepsin breaks down large protein molecules into shorter chains of amino acids called polypeptides.
Where is food mashed and mixed with digestive juices?
in our body lol
How do you use gastric in a sentence?
The stomach has gastric juices in it.
What organ secretes the gastric juices?
The stomach contains gastric acids to help break down foods.
Does the saliva secrete digestive juices?
no
What are gastric juices?
Gastric juices are secretions from the stomach lining that contain hyrdrochloric acid and an enzyme that digests protein.
Parietal cells are found in gastric mucosa and secretes hydrochloric acid in stomach. They are also known as Chief cells or oxyntic cells.?
Parietal cells (or oxyntic cells) are epithelium cells found in the gastric mucosa, they secrete hydrochloric acid (HCl) and intrinsic factor (which is required for vitamin B12 absorption). Chief cells are not the same as parietal cells. Chief cells secrete pepsinogen and rennin.
