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What organ secretes the gastric juices?
The stomach contains gastric acids to help break down foods.
What acids are in gastric juices?
Hydrochloric acid is found in gastric juices. With the high acidic levels of hydrochloric acid, it creates a harsh environment and helps to kill off most of the bacteria living in the stomach.
What churns food and adds gastric juices and acids?
stomach walls
What is the function of the mucus in the stomach?
Mucus protects stomach lining from gastric acids.
What does the enzyme gastric protease do?
Gastric protrease is produced by the walls of the stomach. It breaks down proteins to amino acids in the stomach (a highly acidic place).
How is food chemically broken down once inside the stomach?
It is a reaction with gastric acids.
What 'pre-gastric' and 'post-gastric' fermentation mean?
Pre-gastric fermentation is the process of microbial digestion occurring before the food reaches the hosts digestive epithelium (which secrete acids and enzymes) Post-gastric Fermentation has microbial digestion after hosts digestive epithelium.
What liquid secreted into the stomach to break down food?
stomach acids aka lysosomes break down the food
What is the function of mucus in gastric gland?
The mucus protects the inner lining of the stomach from the action of acids.
What are the special chemicals that break down food into liquid form in the stomach?
gastric acids enzymes
Why doesnt gastric juice digest inside of the stomach?
because the inside of our stomach is protected by a mucosal layer that prevents its own digestion. Now, it doesn't mean that the inside of the stomach can never be damaged by the gastric juice. An ulcer occurs when this layer of mucus has been destroyed by the acidity of the gastric juice (with the help of certain bacterial infections in the stomach).
What enzyme in the stomach acts on preemulsified fat to yield free fatty acids to glycerol?
gastric lipase
