PANCREATIC SECRETION

Pancreas

- is a digestive organ, secreting
pancreatic juice containing digestive
enzymes that assist digestion and
absorption of nutrients in the small
intestine
- lies parallel to and beneath the
stomach

Pancreatic Digestive Enzymes

- are secreted by
and large volumes of

Combined product of enzymes and Sodium Bicarbonate flows through a long pancreatic duct surrounded by the Sphincter of Oddi

Pancreatic Juice

- is secreted most abundantly in response to the presence of chyme

Pancreatic Acini

Sodium

Bicarbonate