OESOPHAGUS STOMACH
BODY OF STOMACH
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Pepsin
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Peristalsis
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Bile
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Fats
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pepsin is a stomach enzyme that serves to digest proteins found in ingested food. Gastric chief cells secrete pepsin as an inactive zymogen called pepsinogen.
Detailed explanation-2: -Of these five components, pepsin is the principal enzyme involved in protein digestion. It breaks down proteins into smaller peptides and amino acids that can be easily absorbed in the small intestine.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gastric juice is a unique combination of hydrochloric acid (HCl), lipase, and pepsin.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gastric juice has mucus, pepsin, lipase and rennin. Mucus helps in the protection of the mucosal epithelium. Pepsin converts proteins into peptides. Fats are broken down by lipases of gastric juice.
Detailed explanation-5: -Pepsin, the first animal enzyme discovered (Florkin, 1957), is an acidic protease that catalyzes the breakdown of proteins into peptides in the stomach, while it does not digest the body’s own proteins.