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If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucus every week, it would digest itself.
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What protects the stomach lining from its acid environment?
Your stomach has a mucus lining that protects it from the acid. Cells located in your stomach produce this lining.
How can the cells in the stomache make HLC and not be destroyed?
There is a mucus lining produced in the liver or pancreas that protects the stomach from getting destroyed.
How long do stomach lining cells live?
Well, you actually have mucus lining your stomach, but that lining is replaced every couple of weeks.
Hydrochloric acid is also present in our stomach how will you justify it how does stomach protect itself from this acid?
Mucus produced by goblet cells in the lining the stomach forms a protective layer preventing the stomach from digesting itself.
What is the stomach coated with?
mucus cells (NOT goblet cells) make and secrete mucus into the gastric pit of the stomach lumen. The mucus covers the stomach protecting it from the acidic environment of HCL (pH aprox 2) that could harm the stomach without this mucus lining.
What organ has a lining of mucus protecting it?
The stomach has a lining of protective mucus.
What is the inner lining of the stomach of beef called?
The inner lining of the stomach contains wrinkles known as gastric folds. These gastric folds allow the stomach to stretch to accommodate large amounts of food. There are also mucous cells and gastric pits in the inner lining that mucous to protect the stomach.
What is the function of the mucus in the stomach?
Mucus protects stomach lining from gastric acids.
Why is the stomach itself not digested?
The stomach has a special mucus lining that is resistant to stomach acid. If a tiny hole develops in this mucus lining, the result can be an ulcer.
Why doesn't acid in a frog's stomach make a hole?
Cells in the stomach lining ooze mucus that neutralizes acid upon contact.
What is damaged section of stomach lining?
The damage section of stomach lining is actually the entire stomach. The stomach is very acidic, however, is covered with a very thick layer of mucus for protection. If the mucus disappears the stomach lining will be damaged by the acids.
Why does the acid hurt the esophagus but not the stomach?
Because the stomach has a lining which protects it. Eventually if the acid continues to be produced then it too will have a negative effect such as an ulcer. The esophagus is a thin tube which does not have a lining.
