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How does the body avoid damaging the digestive enzymes in the small intestine

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As the stomach contents pass from the stomach to the small intestine, their acidity is rapidly neutralized by the addition of HCO3- produced by the pancreasa good thing, too, because the mucosa of the small intestine has no other protection against HCl.

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