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Which part of the GI tract contains highly acidic digestive juices?
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∙ 13y ago
The stomach is the part of the GI tract which contains hydrochloric acid.
Hydrochloric acid is made by the stomach's parietal cells, secreted into the stomach's lumen, where it has an acidic pH around 2-3, which is very acidic (roughtly the same as neat lemon juice).
Hydrochloric acid and pepsin (an acid protease), cooperate in digesting proteins. (Proteins, - amino acids -, denaturates in an acidic environment).
But, as the food (acid chime, by the time it is ready to leave the stomach), proceeds further down the GI tract, the level of acidity has to be buffered, or else, other digestive juices, enzymes would be unable to finish the digetion.
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