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Digestive 1 Flashcards

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What is digestion?

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  • breakdown of ingested food
  • absorption of nutrients into the blood
  • concentration and removal of waste products
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What is metabolism?

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  • production of cellular energy (ATP)

- regulation of cellular activities

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What are two functional groups of organs?

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  • alimentary canal (continuous hollow tube)

- accessory digestive organs

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Structures of alimentary canal

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mouth
pharynx
esophagus
stomach
small intestine
large intestine
anus
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Structures of accessory organs

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salivary glands
liver
gall bladder
pancreas

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6 functions of salivary glands

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  • lubrication/binding
  • solubilization of dry food
  • oral hygiene - flushes away debris
  • begins starch digestion (salviary amylases)
  • alkaline buffering
  • evaporative cooling (dogs)
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Mastication

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  • chewing food
  • add salivary amylases
  • with teeth
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Types of teeth

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  • incisors: rip, cut
  • canines: tear, pierce
  • premolars: grind, shear
  • molars: grind
  • teeth are the hardest structures in the body
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How many teeth do we have?

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- 20 primary deciduous (baby)
32 secondary (permanent)
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Deglutition

what does this involve

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swallowing

  • oral, pharyngeal, esophageal
  • requires 25 pairs of muscles in the mouth, pharynx, larynx, upper esophagus
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Mouth, pharynx, upper esophagus muscles are innervated by

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somatic motor neurons

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Middle and lower esophagus muscles are innervated by

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autonomic neurons

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What is the esophagus

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  • a muscular tube of 25cm
  • connects pharynx to stomach
  • passes through diaphragm
  • mobilizes food by peristalsis
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What is peristalsis?

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food moves by a wave like muscular contraction (involuntary control) so it doesnt come out
- peristaltic contraction

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The stomach has ____ muscle layers

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smooth muscle layers

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What direction do the muscles of the stomach run

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  • longitudinal: length of the organ
  • circular: around the organ
  • oblique direction
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Why are the muscles of the stomach arranged perpendicularly?

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  • to provide complex motility

- mix and mechanically break up food in stomach

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What does the mucosal region of the stomach contain?

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  • gastric pits

- gastric glands

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What are gastric pits?

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  • openings of gastric glands
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What do the gastric glands consist of (cells)?

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from top to bottom:
- mucous cell
parietal cell
- chief cell

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What doe mucous cells secrete?

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mucus

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What doe parietal cells secrete?

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HCl, intrinsic factor (B12 - essential for life)

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What doe chief (zymogenic) cells secrete?

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pepsinogen

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Why can’t the stomach digest itself

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mucousal layer protection

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What are erosions of mucosa in the stomach called/lead to?
- peptic ulcers
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What causes peptic ulcers?
helicobacter pylori | - breaks down the mucosal layer
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What does pepsinogen HCl do?
- presence of HCl, inactive pepsinogen is activated to pepsin - pepsin digests peptides (ingested proteins)
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What are the 3 regions of the small intestine?
- duodenum - jejunum - ileum
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What is the duodenum?
- first 25 cm of the small intestine - mucous secretion - receives pancreatic secretions and bile from liver
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What is the jejunum?
- 1m in length | - numerous fold and villi
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What isthe ileum?
- last 2m - fewer folds/villi than jejunum - absorbs primarily bile salts, water, electrolytes - contains Peyer's Patches (aggregates of lymph nodes - empties into the large intestine via ileocecal valve
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Where is chyme located/found?
- pyloric sphincter (stomach to duodenum)
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What is needed in the pyloric sphincter before things reach the duodenum?
- alkaline bile from liver | - neutralize the acidic stomach
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What are the microvilli?
- formed by foldings at apical surface of each epithelial cell membrane
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What are villi covered with?
- columnar epithelial cells
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What do goblet cells secrete?
mucus | small intestine: villi
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What are epithelial cells at the tip of the villi replaced with when they are sloughed off?
new cells from the intestinal crypts (crypts of Lieberkuhn)
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Where are Paneth cells located and what do they do?
- base of crypts | - secrete antibacterial molecules (lysozyme, antimicrobial peptides) protect the intestine from inflammation
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What do microvilli do?
on the lumenal side of the small intestine has enzymes digests what it comes in contact with note microvilli are not villi
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What is the importance of bacterial colonies? and where?
- in the large intestine (colon) | - plays essential role in digestive processes
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Good bacteria vs pathogenic bacteria?
- good outcompetes bad - pathogenic bacteria takes over - colon reacts - elimanate colon content and sloughing off colon epithelium = diarrhea
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Where is the appendix located?
- small component of the colon at the cecum
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Does the appendix aid in digestion?
no, but it has lymph vessels
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What is it called when the appendix is inflamed?
- appendicitis | - pain in lower quadrant of abdomen
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Ruptured appendix can cause inflammation in the peritoneal cavity called
peritonitis | releasing bacteria to your insides
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What is an example of mutualism in the digestive system?
``` intestinal microbiota (10x more than human cells) also commensalism ```
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When is intestinal microbiota formed?
originates at birth
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How does gut bacteria regulate happinnes in humans?
- seretonin hormone (changes with stress, anxiety, depression) - major target of clinical antidepressants
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What is the composition of gut microbiome linked to in terms of your health?
- immune system development | - onset of metabolic diseases such as obesity
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What influences your gut microbiome?
your diet
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What is abonormal microbiota called?
dystbiotic microbiota | - treat by changing diet, fecal translplants etc
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What types of cells does the liver made up of?
hepatic cells lining sinusoids (large capillaries)
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What are sinusoids? What are they lined by? What cells do they contain?
large capillaries - endothelial cells (blood vessels) - Kupffer cells (phagocytes)
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What is a cool capability of the liver?
regenerative capabilities | - 2/3 removed, regenerate within a week (rodents)
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What are the 2 blood inputs to the liver?
- portal vein (intestines) -major source of blood | - hepatic artery (from heart)
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What is the endocrine function of the liver?
- enzymes and hormones of the liver work | - output - sent to hepatic vein and back to heart so nutrients can unload there and pump to whole body
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2 exocrine regions of the liver?
- left and right hepatic ducts
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Where is bile made?
liver
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Where is bile stored?
gallbladder
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Where do R/L hepatic ducts meet?
- meet up wtih the cystic duct from the gall bladder (where bile is stored)
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What do the R/L hepatic ducts + cystic duct form?
common bile duct
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What are 5 functions of the liver?
- detoxification of the blood - carbohydrate metabolism - lipid metabolism - protein synthesis - secretion of bile
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What is the association of bilirubin with liver/ how is it formed?
hemoglobing -> heme -> (minus Fe2+) -> bilverdin -> bilrubin -> liver -> conjugated bilirubin -> excreted in bile in feces
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What is bilirubin carried in the blood by?
albumin proteins taken up by the liver
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What is bilirubin mixed with in the liver? Why is this important?
glucaronic acid = water soluble and can be secreted into bile
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In the intestine what is the water soluble conjugated bilirubin into? Final product?
urobilinogen - then removed in the feces - some re-enters the circulation and excreted by kidneys
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What is the gallbladder and function?
- sac like organ attached to the inferior surface of the liver - stores and concentrates bile from the liver
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What are gall stones?
- common | - mineral deposits that produce painful symptoms by obstructing the bile ducts
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How are gall stones removed?
- surgery (remove the gallbladder) cuz u dont need it to produce bile - oral ingestion of bile acids - fragmentation by high energy shock waves
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Pancreatic juices have 3 common enzymes:
amylase trypsin lipase
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What does amylase do? (in pancreatic juice)
digests starch
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What does trypsin do? (in pancreatic juice)
digests proteins
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What does lipase do? (in pancreatic juice)
digests triglycerides
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What enzymes does digestion require?
- pancreatic enzymes | - brush border enzymes
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How do brush border enzymes work/ what do they act on?
- activates the inactive form of pancreatic enzyme trypsin
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What is trypsin?
- protease that can activate other pancreatic enzymes
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The pancreas is both a ___ and ___
endocrine gland | digestive organ
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How is the pancreas an endocrine gland?
- pancreatic islets of langerhans | - makes hormones (insulin, glucagon, somatostatin)
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How is the pancreas a digestive organ?
secretes digestive enzymes destined for the small intestine | - enzymes that digest: chyme, carbs, proteins, lipids
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