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How much of the pancreatic secretion is endocrine?

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About 2%

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What are the 2 main roles of pancreatic secretion?

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  • neutralize acid content from the stomach

- digestion using digestive enzymes

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How much pancreatic juice is secreted per day?

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700-900mL / day (depends on ingested food)

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What are the characteristics of pancreatic juice secretion? (2)

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  • Isoosmotic

- Alkaline

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What type of secretion mechanism for pancreatic juice?

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Sequential secretion : both acinar and duct cells will produce PJ (duct > acinar)

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What are the 3 main differences between salivary acinar secretion and pancreatic acinar secretion?

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  • secrete more enzymes than salivary gland, in the inactive form
  • less fluid
  • has CFTR chloride channel
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Which of the pancreatic cells produce the majority of the fluid?

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The duct cells

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How do pancreatic duct cells make the pancreatic juice more alkaline?

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By exchanging CL- for HCO3- (proximally)

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What happens in the distal pancreatic duct cells?

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Some HCO3- can be reabsorbed and exchanged for Cl-, the amount depends on the rate of secretion

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What are the 3 ways of regulating pancreatic juice secretion?

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  • Neural regulation
  • Hormonal regulation
  • Feed forward regulation (look at food)
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Which neural regulation dominates pancreatic juice secretion?

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parasympathetic

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How does Ach affect PJ secretion? (3)

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  • Acts on acinar cells
  • Gq coupled (M3)
  • Upregulates enzyme secretion
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How does VIP affect PJ secretion? (3)

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  • Acts on vessels (or acinar cell)
  • Gs coupled
  • Causes vasodilation to increase volume of secretion
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What are the 2 hormones that can affect PJ secretion?

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CCK and secretin

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When is secretin produced?

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When there is low duodenal pH condition

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What is the effect of secretin on pj secretion?

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  • acts on the duct cells

- increase HCO3- secretion

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When is CCK produced?

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When there is protein degradation / digested food in the stomach

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What is the effect of CCK on the pj secretion?

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will increase the secretion of digestive enzymes (Ca2+ signal)

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What is the vagovagal reflex?

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presence of food in the stomach (or intestine) increases pancreatic juice secretion

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How much blood can the liver store?

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0.5L

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What are the 5 main roles of the liver?

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  1. Metabolic role
  2. Blood reservoir
  3. Store for copper, Fe
  4. Immunological (kupffer)
  5. secretory and excretory functions
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What is the secretory fluid of the liver?

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bile, digestive fluid without proteins

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What is the excretory fluid of the liver useful for?

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removing substances that can’t be removed by kidneys (xenobiotics, heavy metals, drugs)

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Bile production / day

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200-1200mL/day

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What are 4 characteristics of the bile?
- Isoosmotic - Alkaline - Mixture of hepatic and gallbladder bile - Micellar formation
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What happens to bile from the liver in between meals?
It can be redirected to the gallbladder for storage and concentration
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What constitutes 50% of the dry weight of bile?
bile acids
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What are the 4 most important components of bile?
bile acids, bile salts, H20, HCO3-
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What are the primary bile acids?
Bile acids formed in the liver
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2 examples of primary bile acids
- Cholic acid | - Chenodeoxycholic acid
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What are bile salts?
Conjugated bile acids, for example to glycine or taurine (more water soluble)
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What are the bile acids / salts important for?
they are necessary for the formation of micelles due to their amphipathic nature
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What are other molecules than can be found in the micelles? (2)
- phosphatidyl choline | - cholesterol
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When do gallstones happen?
When one of the constituents of the micelle is overproduced and can't be integrated, thus forming crystals
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What is the daily cholesterol balance?
input = output = 1.25 g/day
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What are the 2 inputs of cholesterol?
- Diet (20%) | - Hepatic and extrahepatic synthesis (80%)
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What are the 2 outputs of cholesterol?
- As cholesterol (75%) to bile | - As bile acids (25%) to bile
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What are the 2 ways of entry of solutes into bile?
- Active secretion (bile acids, conjugated bilirubin, xenobiotics) - Passive permeation (H20, glucose, calcium)
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What are the 2 important transporters for transport of bile out of the cell?
- BSEP | - MDR (multi drug resistance)
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What does MDR3 transport?
phosphatidyl choline
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What does MDR1 transport?
cationic xenobiotics
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What does BSEP transport?
bile acids
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What are the 2 ways of transporting water to the bile canaliculi?
- Bile acid dependant flow | - Bile acid independant flow
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What is bilirubin an end product of?
Porphyrin catabolism : hemoglobin - biliverdin - bilirubin
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What does bilirubin need to be transported to bile?
It needs to be conjugated to glucuronic acid in the cell = bilirubin glucuronidase
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Which cells can modify the bile in the ducts?
cholangiocytes, possess a lot of CFTR to attract Cl, H20 and HCO3-
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What are the 3 factors of bile flow?
- Fluid secretion (cholangiocytes) - bile acid dependant flow - bile acid independant flow
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What is the choleretic effect?
Aka primary regulation : if bile ACID secretion is higher, then the total bile FLOW will be higher as well
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What are the 3 ways of regulating bile flow?
- choleretic effect - neural regulation - secretin
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What are the 2 neural regulations of bile flow?
- sympathetic : decreases | - parasympathetic : vagus, increases
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How does secretin regulate bile flow? (3)
- acts on duct cells - upregulates CFTR number and function - increases bile secretion
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How is bile secretion compared to the plasma? (2)
Isotonic and alkaline
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How is H20 reabsorbed from the gallbladder?
standing gradient osmotic mechanism
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How much bile is lost per day?
0.6 g lost /day (same as daily production)
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What is the enterohepatic circulation of bile?
One bile molecule is reused multiple times
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How is bile released after a meal?
NO and VIP relax the sphincter of odi after activation of the parasympathetic system
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What is VIP coupled to ?
Gs
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How does Ach help with release of bile after a meal?
can constrict the gallbladder by binding to muscarinic 3, 4, 5 receptor
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What can enhance the effect of Ach on the release of bile? (2)
- CCK (Gq), which is released in response to presence of food. - CCK can also activate afferent vagal nerves for the vagovagal reflex
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How much small intestine mucosa secretion / day?
1.5-2L / day
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What are 4 features of small intestine secretion?
- Isoosmotic - Mostly H20 - Most important electrolyte is HCO3- - No production of digestive enzymes
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What is the main regulation of small intestine secretion
mostly parasympathetic, with Ach and VIP : PKA phosphorylates CFTR
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What is the effect of the cholera toxin?
activates all Galpha SU : continuous cAMP signal irreversibly
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What are the 3 other regulators of small intestine secretion?
- sympathetic system (decrease secretion) - ENS : distention of wall, activation of chemoreceptors - Paracrine mediators : serotonin (increase fluid secretion)
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4 properties of colonic secretion
- rich in mucin - isotonic - no digestive enzymes - HCO3- rich
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How much secretion is presented to the small intestine per day?
8.5 L / day
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How much secretion does the small intestine remove in total / day?
6.5 L / day
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How much secretion does the large intestine remove in total / day?
1.9 L / day
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How much secretion leaves / day in the feces?
Around 1L / day
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