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During a meal, a large volume of digestive juices include the salivary secretions, the gastric juice, the pancreatic and bile secretions. Daily, the total volume of exocrine gland secretions into the gastrointestinal lumen (7 plus liters) is easily three times larger than the water intake. Most of the water of the digestive juices are reabsorbed by the small and large intestines.
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Cheng, H.M. (2016). Secretion of Digestive Juices. In: Cheng, H. (eds) Physiology Question-Based Learning. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0877-1_11
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