23. What is the digestive
enzyme that acts within the
stomach? Which type of food
does it digest? What are the
cells that produce that
enzyme?

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The digestive enzyme acts in the
is pepsin. Pepsin the
function of proteins into
smaller . The gastric cells
produce pepsinogen (the
precursor of pepsin) the chief cells.