Digestive enzyme

Which digestive enzyme acts within the stomach? What kind of food it can digest? Which cells produces that particular enzyme?

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Digestive enzyme which acts in stomach is known as “pepsin”. Pepsin performs the function of breaking down the proteins into the smaller peptides. Gastric cells which produce pepsinogen (zymogen precursor of pepsin) are chief cells.

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