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