By the time food is ready to leave the stomach, it has been formed into a thick liquid
called chyme.
Squirts of
acidic chyme
through the pylorus trigger hormonal responses mediated by enteroendocrine cells in the duodenal wall.
These foods often
produce very viscous intragastric chyme
and this program is designed to find out how the stomach deals with such food.
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