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Epithelial cells (Enterocytes) in the small intestine make
digestive enzymes : True or False?

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True - not nearly as many as the pancreas tho

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Main nutrients that undergo chemical digestion

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  • Carbohydrates (Sugars)
  • Proteins
  • Lipids (Fats)
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What are carbohydrates ?

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  • important source of energy
    • 250-800mg per day in a western diet
    • storage poly sac arises
    • large complex chains of monosaccharides (glucose is a monosaccharide)
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Most common source of carbohydrates

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Starch (plants)
- also glycogen (a carbohydrate in itself - can breakdown into glucose)

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Composition of ingested carbohydrates - starch and glycogen

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  • long chains of glucose joined by α 1-4 glycosidic bonds
    (α amylose can digest it - enzyme specifically snips that bond)
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Examples of disaccharides injested and their compositions

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  • sucrose
    • glucose and fructose
  • lactase
    • glucose and galactose
  • maltose
    • glucose and glucose
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We invest a limited amount of which monsaccaride?

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Glucose

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Structure of sucrose

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Strucutre of glucose

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How many grams per day of protein do we invest in out food

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Ingest 70-100 g per day of proteins in food

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Proteins are not normally a source of energy

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Ya

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Pre it’s are required for

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Amino acids

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How many amino acids can/ cant be synthesised

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12 can by synthesised - non esential
Others cannot be synthesised

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Sources of protein

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  • 50% diet
  • 50% endogenous proteins
    • recycled and taken back into body
    • secreted into intestine
      • enzymes
      • imunoglibns
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Ingested proteins are

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Long chains of amino acids linked by polypeptide bonds

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How many grams of lipids per day

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100 – 150g per day

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What do ingested lipids provide (non-essential)

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  • Important source of energy
  • Fat soluble vitamins A, D, E & K
  • Slow gastric emptying
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Of the lipids in our body.. they are mainly

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triglycerides
- Glycerol back bone with 3 fatty acids attached

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Fatty acids have _____ chain lengths

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Classifications of the variable chain length

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  • short chain fatty acids < 6 carbons
  • medium chain fatty acids - 6 to 12 carbons
  • long chain fatty acids - 12 - 24 carbons
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Why do we need chemical digestion?

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We Ingest nutrients in form of large complex molecules
- Carbohydrates
- Proteins
- Lipids

We can only absorb nutrients as small molecules

Chemical digestion reduced the size of nutrients to allow them to be absorbed

Unitised digestive enzymes

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Why is mechanical digestion needed before chemical digestion

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  • chemical digestion occurs at the surface of food particles
    • Mechanical digestion breaks up food increases surface area
      available for chemical digestion
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Is there a large amount of cellulose in diet

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What is cellulose - what is its structure and how does it differ from simple starch

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  • Structural polysaccharide of plants
  • Long chains of β 1- 4 glycosidic bonds
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Two stages of chemical digestions
- luminal digestion - contact digestion
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Optimal pH of salivary enzymes
Alkaline
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Optimal pH of gastric enzymes
Acidic
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Optimal ph of small intestinal enzymes
Alkaline
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Luminal digestion
Initial digestion involving enzymes secreted into lumen - Salivary glands – salivary amylase - Stomach – pepsin - Small intestine – Pancreatic enzymes - Pancreatic amylase, trypsin, chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase, lipase
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Contact digestion
- In small intestine - Completes digestion before absorption - Involves enzymes produced by enterocytes and attached to brushborder of enterocytes
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Chemical digestion of carbohydrates - luminal
- Salivary and pancreatic amylase - Polysaccharides converted to oligosaccharides and disaccharides
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Chemical digestion of carbohydrates - contact digestion
- Contact digestion - brush border - disaccharidases - Disaccharides converted to monosaccharides - Involves the enzymes - Sucrase, lactase, maltase and others - Bound to brushborder
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Chemical digestion of protein - luminal digestion
- Pepsin in stomach - Precursor pepsinogen secreted by chief cells - Trypsin and chymotrypsin (Peptide bonds) small intestine - Carboxypeptidase (COOH terminus) small intestine - Secreted by pancreas - Converts proteins into polypeptides
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Chemical digestion of proteins - contact digestions
- Involves peptidases - Many types attached to brush border - Convert polypeptides into individual amino acids
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Chemical digestion of lipids - features
Occurs in lumen of small intestine - NO contact digestion - Pancreatic lipase main digestive enzyme - Lingual lipase and gastric lipase have minor role
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The problem with lipid digestion
- Digestive enzymes that break down lipids dissolved in aquious luminal fluid - No problem for carbohydrates and proteins (they are Soluble in water) - Lipids (fats) insoluble in water - Requires a more complex process
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4 stages of chemical digestion for fats
Emulsification - motility Stabilisation - bile salts Digestion (hydrolyisis) - enzymes Formation of micelles - bile salts
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Emulsification - The 1st stage of fat digestion -what happens and where
Motility breaks up lipid droplets into small droplets - Forms and emulsion - Droplets 0.5 -1.0 µm - Increases surface area for digestion Occurs in - stomach - retropulsion - simple emulsion - small intestine - segmentation - more complex emulation - bile salts stabilise droplets
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Stabilization - The 2nd stage of fat digestion - where does it occur - what helps it
- Occurs in small intestine - Bile salt
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Stabilization - The 2nd stage of fat digestion Bile salts - what are they secreted by - when are they released - what is their properties - what do they do in emulsion?
- Secreted by liver & concentrated in gallbladder - Released into small intestine with arrival of food - Have a hydrophobic (water hating) and a negatively charged hydrophilic side (water loving) - Stabilize the emulsion in small intestine  Also reduce the size of the emulsion droplets - Further increase in surface area
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Hydrolysis - the 3rd stage of lipid digestion - where does it occur? What enzyme does it involve? What does the enzyme convert it too?
- occurs in small instestine at the surface of emulsion droplets - involves lipase and cofactor - colipase - both secreted by pancreas - colipase anchors lipase to surface of droplet - lipase converts triglycerides to - monoglyceride - free fatty acids
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Formation of micelles the 4th stage of fat digestion
- Products of fat digestion are insoluble in water, especially - Monoglycerides - Long chain fatty acids - Kept in solution through formation of micelles - Micelles are - Small droplets (4-6 nm diameter) - Consist of 20-30 molecules - Bile salts - Amphipathic - Fatty acids - Monoglycerides
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