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57 Cards in this Set
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What are the 3 divisions of the small intestine?
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1. Duodenum
2. Jejunum 3. Ileum |
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What is known as the bile duct and the pancreatic duct enter called?
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Duodenum
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What are the 3 surface areas of the duodenum? And what are they important for?
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1. Circular folds
2. Villi 3. Microvilli Absorption |
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Which area makes enzymes in the duodenum?
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Microvilli
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What type of glands secrete alkaline mucus?
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Dudoenal Brunner's Glands
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What do the intestinal juices trigger?
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Distension or irritation of mucosa
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What are the intestinal juices made of?
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Slightly alkaline, and isotonic with blood plasma.
Largely H2O, enzyme-poor, contains mucus. |
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What do the intestinal juices do?
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Transportation and absorption.
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What are the 3 associated structures with the liver?
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1. Lesser omentum - anchors
2. Hepatic artery and vein 3. Bile ducts |
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What are the 3 different ducts in the liver?
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1. Common hepatic duct
2. Cystic duct 3. Bile duct |
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What do the liver lobules do?
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Filter and process nutrient rich blood.
Longitudinal central vein. |
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What is the portal triad consist of? 3 things
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1. Bile duct
2. Portal arteriole from hepatic anatomy 3. Hepatic venule from hepatic plates |
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Microscopically, what is the liver made of? 4 things
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1. Liver lobules
2. Portal triad 3. Liver sinusoids 4. Kupffer cells in liver sinusoids |
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What are the kupffer cells?
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Hepatic macrophages
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What 4 functions does the Hepatocyte have?
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1. Process blood borne nutrients
2. Store fat soluble vitamins 3. Detoxification 4. Produce bile 900ml/day |
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What 3 things is bile made of?
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1. Bile salts
2. Bilirubin 3. Cholesterol |
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What role does bile salts have?
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Fat emulsification and absorption
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What role does bilirubin have?
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Pigment from heme
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What role does cholesterol have in bile?
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Neutral fats, phospholipids, electrolytes.
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What does the gall bladder do?
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Stores and concentrates bile, absorbs water and ions.
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What two different types of functions does the pancreas have?
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Endocrine
Exocrine |
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What are the endocrine functions of the pancreas?
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Pancreatic islets - insulin and glucagon
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What are the exocrine functions of the pancreas?
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1. Acini - (clustered secretory cells) make pancreatic juice
2. Zymogen granules of secretory cells - digestive enzymes |
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What are the pancreatic juices made of? 3 things
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1. Alkaline - neutralizes chyme
2. Electrolytes - Primarily HCO3 3. Enzymes |
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What 3 different types of enzymes are there in the pancreatic juices?
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1. Amylase
2. Lipases 3. Nucleases |
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What 2 things stimulate bile secretion?
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1. Bile salts in enterohepatic circulation
2. Secretin from intestinal cells exposed to HCl and fatty chyme |
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What 2 things is the gall bladder contraction triggered by?
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1. Cholecytokinin (CCK) from intestinal cells exposed to proteins and fat in chyme
2. Vagal stimulation |
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What causes hepatopancreatic sphincter relaxation?
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CCK
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What 3 things promotes pancreatic secretion?
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1. CCK induces the secretion of enzyme - rich pancreatic juice by Acini
2. Secretin causes secretion of bicarbonate-rich pancreatic juice by duct cells 3. Vagal stimulation also causes release of pancreatic juice (minor stimulus) |
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What 2 things does chyme contain?
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1.Partially digested carbohydrates and proteins
2. undigested fats |
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What are the 5 ways of motility in the small intestine?
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1. Segmentation - mixes and moves contents slowly and steadily toward ileocecal valve
2. Peristalsis - waves 3. Local enteric neurons coordinates motility 4. Ileocecal sphincter relaxes 5. Ileocecal valve flaps close to stop backflow |
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What are the 3 unique features of the large intestine?
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1. Teniae coli: 3 bands of longitudinal smooth muscle in muscularis
2. Haustra: sacs caused by tone of teniae coli 3. Epiploic appendages: fat-filled pouches of visceral peritoneum |
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What are the 4 sections of the colon?
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1. Ascending colon (from small intestine) - ^
2. Transverse colon - > 3. Descending colon - v 4. Sigmoid colon (to rectum) - < |
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What is the last segment of the large intestine called?
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Anal canal
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What do the rectal valves do?
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Stop feces from being passed with gas
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What is the internal anal sphincter made of?
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smooth muscle
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What is the external anal sphincter?
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Skeletal
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Where does the bacterial flora enter from?
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Small intestine or anus
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What does the bacterial flora do? 4 things
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1. Colonize colon
2. Ferment indigestible carbohydrates 3. Release irritating acids and gases 4. Synthesize B complex vitamins and vitamin K |
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What are the 2 major functions of the large intestine?
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1. Vitamins, water and electrolytes reclaimed
2. Major = propulsion of feces toward anus |
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Which part of our digestive system is not essential for life?
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Colon
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What are the 3 different types of chemical digestion?
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1. Catabolic
2. Enzymatic 3. Hydrolysis |
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What are the 3 different basic types of digestive enzymes?
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1. Salivary amylase
2. pancreatic amylase 3. Brush border enzymes |
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What are the 5 different types of specific brush border enzymes?
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1. dextrinase
2. glucoamylase 3. lactase 4. maltase 5. sucrase |
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What vitamins are absorbed in the small intestine? 3?
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1. Fat soluble vitamins (A,D, E & K)
2. Water soluble vitamins ( C & B) 3. B12 |
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How is fat soluble vitamins absorbed into the small intestine?
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Directly in through absorptive cells, carried by micelles.
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How is water soluble vitamins absorbed in the small intestine?
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Absorbed by diffusion, or passive, or active transporters
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How is B12 absorbed in the small intestine? specific term
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Endocytosis
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What 2 different specific vitamins are absorbed in the large intestine?
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K
B vitamins |
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What is special about the B vitamin absorption in the large intestine?
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It is absorbed through bacterial metabolism
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Where is electrolyte absorption mainly occur at?
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Along length of the small intestine.
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Where is Fe+, and Ca+ absorbed at?
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Duodenum
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Where is Na+ absorbed at?
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With glucose and amino acids
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Where is Fe+ absorbed at?
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Stored in mucosal cells with ferritin
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Where is K+ absorbed at?
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It diffuses in response to osmotic gradients.
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What is Ca2+ absorption regulated by?
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Vitamin D and PTH
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Where is water absorption mainly done at in the body?
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95% in the small intestine by osmosis
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