What would happen if bicarbonate was not secreted via pancreatic juice?
Sunday, January 10th, 2010 at
11:22 pm
myka bellisari asked:
What would happen if bicarbonate was not secreted via pancreatic juice
into the small intestine?
Tagged with: Bicarbonate • Liver Cancer Treatment • Small Intestine
Filed under: Medicine
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Stage 4 Lung Cancer
your intestines would get to handle all the lovely HCl that your stomach puts out.
Liver Cancer Treatment
Bicarbonate is secreted into the duodenum to neutralize the HCL to provide the ‘optiminal enviroment for activitity of intestinal and pancreatic enzymes”
Human Anatomy and Physiology 3rd edition,Elaine Marieb, page 823.
That is to say, food like proteins, fats, and carbohydrates would not be digested properly. Usually when that happens bacteria later down the pike will do the digesting and gas, bloating, abdominal pain, and diarreha result. I do not know if the incidence of ulcers would be greater in the duodenum if bicarbonate was not secreted as much, but my guess is that is would be the case.