A 48-year-old woman visits her physician
complaining of recurrent vaginal yeast infection. The doctor explains the
likelihood that the woman´s problem is acid-base imbalance. The normally low pH
in the vagina is maintained by which of the following?

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a proton pump in the epithelial cells similar to
that in parietal cells

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secretion of lactic acid by cells of the
stratified squamous epithelium

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lactic acid
production by Lactobacillus acidophilus from glycogen, which is produced by
epithelial cells

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secretion of carbonic acid by cells of the
stratified squamous epithelium

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