The stomach lining is protected from the very strong acid of the stomach by a coat of mucus. It is secreted by mucous membranes.
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without mucus, your body would digest itself
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the answer is simple columnar epithelia
The stomach has a lining of protective mucus.
No, mitosis does not take place in the lining of the stomach. It actually takes place in the inside of the abdomen, which people usually mistake for the stomach.
The food after being digested by the stomach forms chyme. Chyme is highly acidic, considering that the stomach has HCl of pH 1-2(interestingly, the stomach lining itself is changed every 2 weeks to avoid being damaged by the acid). If this chyme comes in contact with the lining of the intestine, it can severely damage the cells. Bile contains bile salts which are alkaline in nature. So its basic function is to neutalise the chyme.
I just had an assignment on this, protease is released from the pancreas and breaks down proteins in your stomach along with pepsin and rennin which are released from the stomach glands protease comes from the pancreas
The lining of the stomach has less surface area than the lining of the small intestine. The stomach lining has a mucus coating that protects it from acid while the lining of the small intestine is less coated.
Your stomach has a mucus lining that protects it from the acid. Cells located in your stomach produce this lining.
Usually there is a lining of mucous that protects the inner lining of the stomach from the gastric acid.
Mucus protects the stomach and intestinal linings.
A lesion of the mucosal lining of the stomach is called a gastric ulcer.
A lining of mucus is what protects ur stomach from hydrochloric acid
Mucus protects stomach lining from gastric acids.
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Mucus
a mucous layer protects the lining of the stomach from the acid
It gets absorbed into the columnar cells lining the large intestine and from there, it enters the blood stream.