how secretion of gastric juice is controlled in stomach?
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Somatostatin acts in a paracrine manner on G cells in the antrum, along with ECL and parietal cells in the fundus and body of the stomach to suppress gastrin, histamine, and acid secretion. Gastric acid secretion as it relates to a meal occurs in three phases: cephalic, gastric, and the intestinal phase.
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how secretion of gastric juice is controlled in stomach?
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It is under nervous and hormonal control.
it is an acid secretion.
it occurs in three phases ::- Cephalic, gastric, intestinal phase
its kills the bacteria
it is acidic and that's why mucus covers the stomach wall to protect it.
Gastral acid is maintained at a low basal rate in the fasting state by the tonic inhibitation of acid secretion by somatostratin from Gastric -D cells.
In this, The cephalic phase is the first phase of stomach acid secretion.