Name the digestive enzyme which acts in the stomach

Name the digestive enzyme which acts in the stomach? Which kind of food does it digest? What are the cells which generate that enzyme?

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The digestive enzyme which performs in the stomach is pepsin. Pepsin has the function of breaking proteins into the smaller peptides. Gastric cells which generate pepsinogen (that is, the zymogen precursor of pepsin) are the main cells.

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