WHY THE -STOMACH DOES NOT ,/■ - , DIGEST ITSELF.. ■ • Dr. Nandor King has been investigating the still unsolved question; why the' living 'stomach does not digest itself. He' liasfound tliat" tho inner half of tho lining of the stomach and intestines contains "a substiinco which powerfully resists the digestive i action, of tho digestive l fluids to' : bo found there.i' Tho stomach . (and;: tho small intestine as well) are •,therefore • protected against self-digestion' by mucin which tlioy themselves socrct-e. . This mucin cannot. (jo -digested by any .of- the. digestive fluids— either by the' mixtnro of- pepsin aiid hydroch? lorio acid, or by tho .trypsin solution,.. Mucin is not liable to. diffusion; it retaino-' the trypsin and pppsin, and this property -suflicej for tho protection of tho jtonmeli and in. tcstinos from self-digestiou. . i ■.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 197, 14 May 1908, Page 4
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