The GI Tract is all smooth muscle except?
upper 1/3 of esophagus and anal sphincter (striated)
Types of Smooth Muscle Contraction?
2. Tonic - can last hours
Chewing does?
Functions of stomach?
GERD
Oxyntic Cells
Parietal Cells, in body of stomach, weak motility
Pyloric
antrum, very strong contractions, muscle is thicker in this area
accommodation
relaxation
Cells of Caja
-slow waves always present from these intestinal cells
“gastric pacemaker”
3-5 depolarizations/min
Vagal Stimulation effect on slow waves
-increase height of waves (so increase frequency of contraction)
What empties fastest in the stomach?
-isotonic water (everything becomes isotonic when it goes in duodenum)
CCK effect on emptying?
inhibits
Effect of acid on peristalsis?
decrease from neural reflex
Failure of Gastric Emptying
Increased Gastric Emptying
- diarrhea, duodenal ulcer
Reason for irregular contractions in small intestine?
Peristalsis
propulsion, moves food only 4-5cm at a time, short
Migrating Motor Complex
Small Intestine Motility
-must have spikes to have contraction
Teniae Coli
-longitudinal muscle
Haustra
-segmentation in colon, can disappear and reappear in different areas
Achalsia
food stuck in esophagus
rectosphinteric reflex
when rectum is distended, it will contract external sphincter
absent in paraphalgicts (rectal sphincter causes defication)
voluntary rexed for deification
Salivary Secretion Components