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What is the oval organ that sends fluid into the small intestine to chemically digest and neutralize chyme?
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What digestive substances does the small intestine secrete?
The stomach produces chyme.
What controls the amount of chyme entering that small intestine?
The pyloric sphincter regulates the entry of chyme into the duodenum.
Blockage of the ileocecal valve would prevent?
Chyme from entering the colon (Large intestine).
What sphincter that allows chyme to pass into the small intestine is known as the?
lower esophageal sphincter.
What organ secretes buffers needed to neutralize the acidity of chyme and also secretes digestive enzymes?
Cells that line the stomach produce gastric acids. The other cells found in the stomach are also the ones that produce a fluid called a bicarbonate, which is a base, to neutralize stomach acid.
Why is it important for the pancreas to release bicarbonate into the small intestine?
It is important for the pancreas to release bicarbonate into the small intestine because the pancreatic fluid flows into the small intestines. The pancreatic fluid consists of enzymes that chemically digest chyme and contains bicarbonate which neutralizes the acid in chyme. So in order for the stomach to chemically digest the food it has to have the pancreatic fluid.
What digest and neutralize chyme?
chyme consist of different dietary components that are digested by different enzymes in the small intestine and for neutralisation is by the pancreatic bicarbonate and alkaline from von brunners glands in duodenum and also bile in the ileum
How is the pH of the stomach maintained?
Alkaline pancreatic juices are secreted into the small intestine and neutralize the acidic chyme.
Partially digested food in stomach?
the food will digest in the small intestine by the stomsch and eshopagus
The pancreas secretes which substance to help the small intestine digest food?
carbohydrates, protein, and fat in the chyme.
What ions will neutralize the chyme?
Bicarbonate
Where does the chyme go?
The chyme goes in the small intestine.
Where does food go after it leaves the stomach?
Food that leaves the stomach is called chyme. The chyme passes through a short passage called a duodenum. The duodenum releases enzymes which help digest the chyme before it passes into the small intestine. The small intestine absorbs the nutrients into the blood stream, and then passes digested chyme into the large intestine. The large intestine re-absorbs the water that was mixed into the chyme in the stomach, duodenum, and small intestine. The large intesting then compacts the undigested material into the stool, which passes into the descending colon. . When sufficient stool collects in the colon, it passes into the rectum. When stool collects the rectum, you develop an urge to defecate, which is the expulsion of the stool from rectum out the anus.
What base would you add to chyme?
The pancreas secretes bicarbonate (HCO3-) to the chyme in the duodenum to neutralize it.
What does chyme contain much of that's absorbed in the large intestine?
Chyme is made up of partly digested food, hydrochloric acid, and a range of enzymes. Once it enters the small intestine it is mixed with bile to neutralize the stomach acid. I think the best answer may be water; everything else varies depending on the original food.
What digestive substances does the small intestine secrete?
The stomach produces chyme.
Why pancreas secretes trypsinogen into the intestinal lumen?
Because it will digest the proteins that are in the food chyme that enters into the small intestine and break it into smaller molecules that can be absorbed into the body in the jejunum.
