| 1 | "Once you have pepsin in the tissue, acid from above is equally damaging," she said. | |
| 2 | "Once you have pepsin in the tissue, acid from above is equally damaging, " she said. | |
| 3 | "Once you have pepsin in the tissue, acid from above is equally damaging," she said. | |
| 4 | The impressively named chief cells secrete pepsinogen which, when it mixes with stomach acid, becomes an enzyme called pepsin. | |
| 5 | In the stomach, this acid functions to kill bacteria in foods, to soften foods and to convert the inactive enzyme pepsinate into its active from pepsin, to begin the digestion of protein. |