GENERAL ANATOMY
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
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It supports the small intestine in breaking down the chyme to extract useful nutrients.
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It produces enzymes that help the large intestine form waste into solid feces.
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It provides the stomach with enzymes like pepsin and lipase to break down proteins and fats.
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It connects the small intestine to the gallbladder to help dissolve fatty matter.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Your pancreas creates natural juices called pancreatic enzymes to break down foods. These juices travel through your pancreas via ducts. They empty into the upper part of your small intestine called the duodenum. Each day, your pancreas makes about 8 ounces of digestive juice filled with enzymes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The pancreas contains exocrine glands that produce enzymes important to digestion. These enzymes include trypsin and chymotrypsin to digest proteins; amylase for the digestion of carbohydrates; and lipase to break down fats.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the upper section of your small intestine (duodenum), digestion continues as chyme from the stomach mixes with a variety of digestive juices from your pancreas, liver and gallbladder: Pancreas. The pancreas produces digestive enzymes that help break down proteins, carbohydrates and fats.
Detailed explanation-4: -As chyme floods into the small intestine, cholecystokinin is released into blood and binds to receptors on pancreatic acinar cells, ordering them to secrete large quantities of digestive enzymes.
Detailed explanation-5: -Once food is in the small intestine, it stimulates the pancreas to release fluid containing a high concentration of bicarbonate. This fluid neutralizes the highly acidic gastric juice, which would otherwise damage the membrane lining of the intestine, resulting in a duodenal ulcer.