Scarlet had an autoimmune disease in her stomach and then reported having some d

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Scarlet had an autoimmune disease in her stomach and then reported having some difficulty in digesting high-protein food. (a) which type of cells in her stomach would have been most clearly affected? You can assume that the pH of the stomach remained low. Scarlet had an autoimmune disease in her stomach and then reported having some difficulty in digesting high-protein food. (a) which type of cells in her stomach would have been most clearly affected? You can assume that the pH of the stomach remained low.

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The disease condition mentioned in the question is autoimmune atrophic gastritis.

It is an chronic inflammatory disease caused by autoimmune system. This disease affects the chiefcells of stomach, which secrete pepsinogen and chymosin. The pepsinogen is actived into pepsin by gastric acid secreted by parietal cells of stomach. In the present disease, the chief cells of stomach are affected thus the enzyme, pepsinogen may not be released. Due to lack of pepsinogen, the high-protein food may not be digested.

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