Secretin. The small intestine is periodically assaulted by a flood of acid from the stomach, and it is important to put out that fire in a hurry to avoid acid burns. similar, but quantitatively less important response to secretin is elicited by bile duct cells, resulting in additional bicarbonate being dumped into the small gut. As acid is neutralized by bicarbonate, the intestinal pH rises toward neutrality, and secretion of secretin is turned off.
Posted: 07/10/2013 6:11 pm EDT Updated: 07/10/2013 6:11 pm EDT. Getty. By: Laura Poppick, Staff Writer. Published: 07/10/2013 04:02 PM EDT on LiveScience. The personality traits of children in the first five years of their life may help predict alcohol use during teenage years, a new study shows. The study, detailed today (July 10) in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, reveals certain temperaments of kids that are correlated with teen drinking.
Heredity (nature) determines the basic number of âneuronsâ (brain nerve cells) children are born with, and their initial arrangement. At birth, a babyâs brain contains 100 billion neurons, roughly as many nerve cells as there are stars in the Milky Way, and almost all the neurons the brain will ever have. The brain starts forming prenatally, about three weeks after conception. Before birth, the brain produces trillions more neurons and âsynapsesâ (connections between the brain cells) than it needs. During the first years of life, the brain undergoes a series of extraordinary changes.