Digestion
food into nutrients Challenges include - tasks of the mouth - diaphragm - steady movement - lubrication of food - digestive enzyme functions - management of waste
GI tract
begins in mouth
Muscle
2 layers of muscle in digestive tract: longitudinal and diagonal
- stomach has 3 + circular
peristalsis and segmentation
- circular muscle tighten tube constricts, chyme pushed forward down long intestine
Sphincter Contracts
secretion of digestion
mouth
saliva (salivary amylase) not enough time in mouth to break anything down
stomach: gastric juices
enzymes to breakdown proteins - zymogen
- activated by another substance when it gets to location
stomach: gastric juices
enzymes to breakdown proteins - zymogen
- activated by another substance when it gets to location
stomach: parietal cells
parietal cells make gastric juices which denatures proteins
- chief cells release pepsinogen which helps with protein digestion
stomach: pepsinogen
turns to pepsin by gastric juice
stomach: pepsin
pepsin breaks down proteins
stomach: fovlear cells
secrete mucus and protect the stomach lining from acid
Pancreas: pancreatic juice
dueodenum
- contains lipase, amylase and trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, responsible for breaking down fluid
Pancreas: intestinal juice
enterpeptidase: intestinal cells -> typsinogen -> trypsin
bicarb: neutralizes stomach acid bc small int cant handle acid
sucrase, maltase and lactase: carb breakdown
Peptidase-> enzyme for protein digestion
lipase -> fat digestion
Liver
CCK secretes in response to chyme -> trigger to gallbladder & liver to release bile to allow fats to come into solution so fats can be broken down
- bile released into liver
carb digestion
begins in mouth with salivary amylase
lipid digestion
fats difficult to digest bc hydrophobic and enzymes are hydrophilic
Digestion of proteins
HCL denatures proteins
- pepsin breaks to small polypeptides
absorption of nutrients
the body begins to absorb nutrients 3-4 hrs after eating
intestinal absorbing cells
3 ways of absorbing nutrients: 1
simple diffusion
3 ways of absorbing nutrients: 2
Facilitated diffusion
3 ways of absorbing nutrients: 3
Active transport