There are five digestive juices; saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice, succus entericus (intestinal juice) and bile. The necessity for so many digestive juices is that -(a) One juice does not contain all the enzymes necessary for digesting all the different types of foodstuffs. For instance, saliva contains only carbohydrate-splitting enzymes; whereas gastric juice contains both fat- and protein -splitting enzymes [...]
In this article we will discuss about the meaning and development of pancreas in human body with the help of suitable diagram. Meaning of Pancreas: The pancreas is both an endocrine as well as exocrine gland. It is devoid of distinct connective tissue capsule and is covered by a fine layer of the loose tissue which passes into the gland [...]
There are five digestive juices, viz., saliva, gastric juice, pancreatic juice, succus entericus (intestinal juice) and bile, secreted from salivary, gastric, pancreatic, intestinal and hepatic gland respectively, which are poured in the alimentary canal at its different levels successively from oral to aboral side. The term, mechanism of secretion is meant by- (a) How the glands respond to secrete by [...]