Define digestive juice ?
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Digestive juices contain enzymes—substances that speed up chemical reactions in the body—that break food down into different nutrients.
One important component of gastric juice is pepsin. Pepsin is the chief digestive enzyme in the stomach that breaks down proteins. We see that chief cells produce pepsinogen (an inactive form of pepsin). Pepsinogen is converted to pepsin when the parietal cells found within the gastric glands secrete hydrochloric acid.
Examples of digestive enzymes are:
—-Amylase, produced in the mouth. It helps break down large starch molecules into smaller sugar molecules.
———Pepsin, produced in the stomach. ...
———Trypsin, produced in the pancreas. ...
———-Pancreatic lipase, produced in the pancreas. ...
———Deoxyribonuclease and ribonuclease, produced in the pancreas.
One important component of gastric juice is pepsin. Pepsin is the chief digestive enzyme in the stomach that breaks down proteins. We see that chief cells produce pepsinogen (an inactive form of pepsin). Pepsinogen is converted to pepsin when the parietal cells found within the gastric glands secrete hydrochloric acid.
Examples of digestive enzymes are:
—-Amylase, produced in the mouth. It helps break down large starch molecules into smaller sugar molecules.
———Pepsin, produced in the stomach. ...
———Trypsin, produced in the pancreas. ...
———-Pancreatic lipase, produced in the pancreas. ...
———Deoxyribonuclease and ribonuclease, produced in the pancreas.
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