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3 fcns of digestive system
1. movement of food down sys
2. mixing of food and enzymes (secretion of mucus for lube + protect)
3. digestion/absorption of nutrients
name some structures from typical cross-section of gut
serosa/circular muscle/longitudinal muscle/submucosa/Meissener's nerve plexus/mucosa/epithelial lining/mucosal muscle/mucosal gland/myenteric nerve plexus/submucosal gland/mesentery
Movement through GI tract depends on
Smooth muscle
smooth GI muscle fcns as a _____
unit

slow waves, spike potentials, muscle contractions
Hallmark of smooth muscle in gut
self-excitatory!
resting membrane potential of smooth gut muscle
50-60mV
the Slow Waves of GI are the ______________, NOT the action potential!
pacemaker = slow waves


*sodium channels
What ion elicits action potentials in smooth GI muscle?
Calcium!

*elicits rhythmical contraction
The calcium channels elicit the action potentials (contractions) but ___________ controls the changes in rhythm.
Sodium conductance
name of sodium pacemaker cells
Interstitial cells of Cajal

PACEMAKER SODIUM CAJAL
Interstitial cells of Cajal are INDEPENDENT of ____________. Why?
hormones/nervous stimuli

*because the pacemaker doesn't depend on environment. Steady on.
Variable amplitude cells ARE affected by nervous/hormonal stimuli.
- what happens to strengthen GI contraction?
-Increase amplitude leads to...
-Increase in Spike potential frequency (action potentials) leads to...
-Increase in strength of contraction!
cells affected by nervous/hormonal stimuli?

cells not affected by the same?
affected = variable amplitude

not affected = Interstitial of Cajal
Leaky sodium channels have a -35 mV threshold. When does a true action potential occur in GI smooth muscle?
SLOW WAVES reach -40mV, then spike/action potential causes smooth muscle contraction
EC coupling review

(cause and 2 options)
stomach-smooth muscle-Ca enters cytoplasm via caveoli channel-released from S.R. via Ca+Ca or IP3 (Dag/PIP/PL-C) channel or Ca depletion causes STORE operated channel to open allowing Ca to enter
summarize resting GI membrane and action potential
Resting @ -50mV

SLOW waves at threshold -40mV
every 12 sec.
summarize Stimulation of GI membrane and action potential
Slow waves (Sodium) @ -42mV lower threshold to -35mV then...
SPIKES!! (Calcium) to about -5mV.
3 stimulators: stretch, Ach, Parasymps
summarize hyperpolarization of GI membrane (no a.p.'s)
-65mV fluctuating slightly
Hyperpolarization stimulated by:
Norepinephrine
Sympathetics
Name 3 types of smooth muscle contractions in GI
Rhythmic
Tonic
Giant Migrating
contraction that mixes and propulses food
Rhythmic
contraction that increases the tone of small intestine and colon (shrinks lumen size) to propel digested food
Tonic (tone)
rapidly propagating contractions that travel over long distances and produce mass movements
esophagus to colon
Giant Migrating
2 plexuses of GI for neural control
Myenteric (muscular) plexus

Submucosal plexus
mainly postganglionic to GI
postgang SYMPs
how does GI epithelium communicate with the prevertebral ganglia, spinal cord and brain stem?
sensory neurons

(also communicate with submucosal and myenteric plexuses)
Myenteric plexus also called
Auerbach's plexus

*Intrinsic control via ENTERIC n.s.
Submucosal plexus also called
Meissner's plexus

*Intrinsic control via ENTERIC n.s.
Extrinsic (outside) controls of GI neural
ANS:
Parasympathetic - Ach Stimulates!
Sympathetic - NE i n h i b i t s . . .
The Enteric nervous system of GI runs inside the ________ from the _________ to the __________.
gut wall from esophagus to anus
Integration can occur entirely within the enteric nervous sys. What does this mean?
The enteric ns can function independently of the ANS

*Myenteric and Submucosal plexuses
The myenteric plexus functions mainly to control the
GI motility

*it is between the longitudinal and circular muscle layers so 'motile' is operative word
Inhibitors of MYENTERIC plexus
Decreased sphincter tone (relax):
1. LES lower esophageal sphincter
2. pyloric sphincter
3. ileocecal sphincter
name the 3 sphincters that inhibit the myenteric plexus
(L.i.p.):
LES
pyloric
ileocecal
Myenteric plexus is between the muscle layers from esophagus to anus. Where is the submucosal plexus of GI found?
esophagus to anus but in the mucosal, not muscular, layer of GI
Myeneric plexus is responsible for gut motility (movement = muscle).
SUBmucosal plexus?
local control

*myenteric is like the Fed moving everything along, submucosa town mgr.
local control functions of the submucosal "town mgr.s": (3)
secretion
absorption
contraction of muscularis mucosa
supplies parasympathetic Cranial division
VAGUS
(first half of gut)
nerves for second half of gut parasympathetics
Pelvic SPLANCHNIC nerves for Sacral division
(second half of gut)
remember that sympathetics are short on sympathy, so reverse is parasympathetics are
long (preganglionically)
parasympathetic postganglionics are short - these Cranial (VAGUS) and Sacral (p. SPLANCHNIC) nerves synapse primarily with ?
ENS
what excites the ENS?
parsympathetics

(Cranial and Sacral divisions of Vagus and pelvic splanchnic nerves)
Contains 80% afferent sensory fibers that go back to brain, myenteric and submucosal plexuses.
Parasympathetic nerves contain 80% of afferent sensory fibers.
From whence do sympathetic pregangs come?
T5-L2 (cell bodies)
Pregang sympathetics come from T5-L2 cell bodies and synapse where?
prevertebral ganglia
Post-ganglionic sympathetics originate in the ganglia, obviously, and terminate in the ______ (mostly) to innervate the entire gut.
ENS
What inhibits sympathetic innervation of digestive sys?
a. decreasing ENS activity
b. direct effect to inhibit smooth muscle
Parasympathetics contain 80% afferent nerve fibers. What do sympathetics contain?
50%
term for digestive neurotransmitters
neurocrines
preganglionic efferent neurocrine
Ach
postganglionic efferent neurocrine
Parsympathetic: Ach

Sympathetic: NE
What neurocrines does the Enteric system use to inhibit and excite, primarily?
inhibit: NE (sympathetic)

excite: Ach (parasympathetic)
*rest and digest means ON!
job of SENSORY afferent neurons from gut to brain
Tells brain when gut wall distended, when non-specific irritation of gut mucosa occurs, when specific chemical stimuli happens
Stimulation of the sensory afferents from gut to brain can do one of two things?
excite OR inhibit

*intestinal movements and secretions
explain path of LONG LOOP reflex
*remember, this is a long loop so must end where it began, and a reflex so will not tell brain a thing!
gut - afferent nerve - prevertebral ganglia - efferent nerve - back to gut

(long loop reflex is a long loop!)
3 Long Loop reflexes of gut:
1. Gastro-Colic (evacuate, evacuate!)
2. Entero-Gastric (stop stomach contractions and begin secretions)
3. Colono-Ilieal (stop dumping ileal contents into colon)
long loop reflex that tells stomach to stop contracting/motility and start secreting stomach enzymes
Entero-Gastric l.l.r.

(nervous sys of gut to stomach talk)
Long loop reflex of gut that tells colon to evacuate, evacuate!
gastro-colic llr

(signals from stomach to colon to clear)
Long loop reflex that tells the ilieum to stop dumping into the colon?
Colono-ilieal llr

(colon screams "Stop!" to ilieum so ilieum quits dumping its contents)
Long loop reflexes end up where they started and never reach the brain. What are the gut to spinal cord or brain stem and back to gut reflexes?
V.D.P.
-Vasovagal
-Defecation
-Pain
*reflex that allows stomach to send message via afferent to brain stem. **Controls gastric motor and secretory activity: ____________________
VDP
Vasovagal reflex

(vaso to vagus and back)
Reflex that lets the colon shout up to the brain, "Yo! It's time to Go!"
VDP
Defecation reflex

(colon to afferent to spinal cord to efferent to colon)
Reflex that overrides EVERYTHING
Pain reflex.
stops GI cold.

*think IBS
What stimulates the gut to work?
distention
irritation
parasympathetic n.s. (excitatory for gut)
The Myenteric plexus between long and circular SM layers controls
peristalsis (reflex)
How does the myenteric plexus inhibit peristaltic reflex?
Atropine! - blocks Ach so drops peristalsis

*Atropos Gr. goddess of Fate/memory
A congenital absence of myenteric plexus
no peristalsis
what mixes food in the gut
persitalsis and local, intermittent constrictions 5-30 sec apart. Every few centimeters there is a constriction- this chops and shears the contents
most important fcn of MOUTH
mastication
*breaks cellulose (indigestible)
*increases surface area (decrease particle size)
*mixes food with saliva (starch break)
how is starch broken in mouth
saliva: alpha-amylase, lingual lipase
Salivary _______ digests starch and turns it into ________. It also digests _____, turning them into mono's, di's and fatty acids.
amylase, maltose, TAG

TAG=triacylglycerols
other term for swallowing
deglutition
3 stages of swallowing
voluntary
pharyngeal (pharynx-eso)
esophageal (eso-stomach)
How is the swallowing reflex controlled?
brain stem

*closes trachea, relaxes Upper Esophageal Sphincter (UES), peristalsis
swallowing center of brain stem
Medulla!

*coordinates vagal nuclei, inhibits respiration, senses from pharynx and esophagus
pharyngeal phase pathway
food - afferent to Glossopharyngeal - swallowing ctr in medulla - efferent to pharynx - yes! responds with peristaltic contraction of pharynx
esophageal stage of swallowing is a continuation of pharyngeal/primary peristalsis. Secondary peristalsis is induced by?
distention
Upper esophagus is 1/3 ________ muscle.
Lower esophagus is 2/3 __________ muscle.
striated

smooth 2/3
once the primary peristalsis is coordinated by medullary swallowing ctr, secondary peri. sends ________-related afferents to ENS and swallowing center.
stretch-related (2nd is distention)

*involves ENS and medulla swallowing
which peristalsis (prime or second) can occur after a vagotomy? Why?
secondary, because it's smooth muscle and not voluntary
During resting state (between swallows), the circular muscle of the esophagus is in _______ contraction and the esophagus body is relaxed.
tonic (sustained for tone)
Why are the esophageal sphincters kept at a HIGH RESTING PRESSURE
UES = to prevent air from entering eso.

LES = stops acid reflux into eso.
What prompts the UES and LES to relax and allow food to pass?
pharyngeal contractions due to swallowing -sends the wave down!
The peristaltic wave of swallowing is high pressure, but what becomes low pressure?
UES and LES/fundus
where does phood physically pfall in the stomach?
into the antrum under the angular notch
orad stomach
fundus and superior part of body that relaxes to accept food

*Receptive Relaxation = ORAD
caudad stomach
mixes food with gastric juice & propels chyme into duodenum

*Retropulsion & Antral Pump
retropulsion (mixing food with gastric juice) would most obviously take place in the ______ of the stomach.
antrum (lowest point)
The stomach stores and mixes food with gastric enzymes (retropulsion in the antrum) and digests?
proteins and fats
what breaks protein into peptides and fats into free fatty acids, tri-, di- and monoacyls and glycerols?
pepsin
2 types of gastric glands
GASTRiC (oxyntic)

PYLORIC
examples of gastric/oxynitic secretions
HCL, pepsinogen, intrinsic factor, mucus, rennin (chymosin)
examples of pyloric gastric secretions
gastrin
mucus
and small amts of pepsinogen
Gastric glands cover 80% of the stomach (upper to antrum). Name the 3 gastric/oxyntic glands:
1.Mucous Neck -mucus
2.Chief -pepsinogen, rennin
3.Parietal -HCL, Intrinsic Factor
The pyloric gland cells make up the last 20% of the stomach - what are they?
1. Mucous Neck - mucus, pepsinogen
2. G-cells - gastrin
name the phases of gastric secretion (4):
1 - Cephalic is vagus
2 - Parasympathetic is pepsin/acid
3 - Gastric is reflexes and Gastrin/histamine complex
4 - Intestinal phase: nervous hormone
Pyloric pump
Pyloric pump uses water pressure to force chyme into duodenum
If the pylorus is constricted, what happens?
What controls the degree of constriction ?
-constriction prevents food particles from passing
-controlled by nervous and blood reflex signals from stomach and duodenum
2 factors that promote stomach EMPTYING:
large food volume (stretch) & Release of hormone GASTRIN
3 factors that INHIBIT stomach emptying:
-CCK
-Secretin
-GIP
what gastric factor indicates there is fat still left in the chyme and so the stomach should NOT empty?
CCK (choleocystokinin) = fat in chyme
what gastric factor indicates there is gastric acid still in the stomach and so it should NOT empty?
Secretin = acid
what gastric factor decreases GI motility and tells the stomach it should NOT empty?
GIP = down gastrointestinal motility (as in sympathetic fight or flight)
what is the first part of the intestines after the stomach/pyloric sphincter?
duodenum
Acidic chyme enters the duodenum from the stomach. What is done to counter this acid and who is responsible?
pH is elevated via BICARBONATE
secreted by Brunner's Glands & pancreas
after the Brunner's glands quell the acid in the duodenum with some bicarb, what happens?
Pancreas digestive enzymes
+
Gall bladder bile enter
via sphincter of Oddi
what causes gall bladder constriction?
CCK
stimulated when stomach has food so it will tell the pancreas as much
Vagus
Vagal stimulation causes the pancreas to release enzymes into the _______
acini
causes giant secretions of pancreatic fluid and bicarbonate.
Secretin
how does the duodenum get rid of secretin and CCK?
absorbed into blood
where does secretin come from?
DUODENUM- caused by presence of acid (HCl) that passed from the stomach
fats and amino acids cause release of
CCK in duodenum

(secretin for acid and CCK for fats/aa's are reabsorbed by blood afterwards)
CCK via bloodstream causes 2 events:
1. gallbladder contraction
2. relaxation of sphincter of Oddi
Bile is stored and concentrated up to __x times in the gall bladder.
15
bile acids via blood stimulate _________ secretion.
liver parenchymal
what causes a wEAk constriction of gall bladder?
vagal stimulation
For digestion and absorption,
Large surface area of microvilli,
Large blood supply
small intestine

Crypts of Lieberkuhn
substances absorbed by the small intestines?
carbs, proteins, lipids
stomach protein digest enzyme of FUNDUS:
-activator
-substrate
-end product
FUNDUS:
-HCl
-protein
-peptides
stomach protein digest enzyme of PYLORUS:
-activator
-substrate
-end product
PYLORUS:
-pH 1-2, AUTOactivation
-protein
-peptides
PANCREAS enzyme trypsinogen has 2 activators, 2 substrates, 2 end products:
enteropeptidase & trypsin
protein and peptides
polypeptides & dipeptides
PANCREAS enzyme
chymotrypsinogen has 1 activator, 2 substrates, 1 end product
trypsin
protein & peptides
as for trypsin
PANCREAS enzyme
prolastase has 1 activator, 2 substrates, 2 end products
trypsin
protein & peptides
polypeptides & dipeptides
PANCREAS enzyme
procarboxy-peptidases have 1 activator, 1 substrate, 2 end products
trypsin
polypeptides @ -COOH end
small peptides & amino a.'s
There are no zymogens (inactive precursors) in the ______________.
small intestine
SMALL INTESTINE enzyme amino-peptidase has 0 activator, 2 substrates, and 2 end p's
no activator (not applicable because no zymogen)
polypeptide at -NH2 & dipeptides
small peptides & aminos
SMALL INTESTINE enzyme dipeptidase has the end product:
amino acids
SMALL INTESTINE enzyme endopeptidase has 1 substrate and 2 end product
polypeptides
small peptides & dipeptides
absorption depends on
gut blood flow
blood flow is proportional in the gut to _____ activity
local

*meals up blood flow to gut
After a meal, active absorption starts in the gut. Where is absorption increased 8x in gut?
villi
During motor activity, where is blood flow increased to gut?
muscle layers (concentric and longitudinal)
name some vasodilators released from gut mucosa (7 total):
CCK - VIP - Gastrin - Secretin - Kallidin - Bradykinin - Adenosine
2 reasons for VASODILATION (increased blood flow) to gut?
1. vasodilators released from mucosa (CCK, etc.)
2. lowered OXYgen in gut wall
Vasodilation due to reduced OXYgen in gut wall is due to
increase in metabolic rate during gut activity
*Up blood flow,
UP ADENOSINE 4X!!!
You know Parasympathetic control is neuro controlled by Ach. When stimulated, these nerves increase?
blood flow and gland secretions to stomach and lower colon
An INCREASE in glandular secretions of the gut always causes and INCREASE in?
blood flow to the gut
Blood flow increase is always secondary to
glandular secretion!
Shuts off blood flow to gut
Exercise (and pain)
Exercise vasoconstricts gut arterioles and is directed by SYMPATHETIC nt's:
Norepinephrine & Epinephrine
name 4 pathologies of blood supply to gut?
1. circulatory shock
2. decreased cardiac output
3. hypotension
4. mechanical obstruction
Gut insults/pathologies decrease the SPLANCHNIC blood flow. What dies?
Villus tip or entire villus dies from ischemia
what insult to body displaces large amts of blood to other parts of body, depriving gut?
Hemorrhagic shock (low blood volume state)
steroid homones are made from
cholesterol

*aldosterone, testosterone
examples of peptide hormones
prolactin, etc. Everything is a peptide hormone except steroid homones and aa derivatives (DA, E, NE, 5-HTP)
if it says hormone on the end, it's probably a ________ hormone
peptide
steroid hormones end in
-one
or
-diol
sweeps undigested residue toward colon tomaintain low bacterial counts in upper intestine
MMC
Migrating Motility Complexes
what mediates MMC? (Migrating Motility Complex sweeping of undigested material to colon)
Motilin mediates MMC

*occurs between meals and takes ~90min from stomach to colon
What do these hormones do?
Gastrin, CCK, Insulin, Motilin, Serotonin
STIMULATES motility
*controlled by Motilin
What secretions INHIBIT gut motility?
Secretin and Glucagon
Epinephrine (adrenals)
somatomedin-C is
IGF-1
how does small intestine motility contribute to digestion and absorption?
mixes chyme
circulates chyme
propels chyme to lg intes.
serves as valve and sphincter between small and large intestine
ileocecal junction
prevents backflow into small intestine mechancially
ileocecal valve (jcn)
regulates movement of ileal contents into large intestine
ileocecal sphincter (jcn)
what excites the sphincter and inhibits peristalsis in ileum?
pressure or chemical irritation in cecum
absorbs fluid, electrolytes and products of bacterial slough-off in colon
LARGE intestine
The large intestine contains the crypts of _________ but there are no villi or enzymes.
Lieberkuhn
bacterial products of the LARGE intestine: (3)
Vitamin K!!!! (don't forget this)
biotin
short-chain fatty acids
what do the crypts of Lieberkuhn secrete in the large intestine, considering there are no villi for absorption?
alkaline mucus

*up with parasympathetic rest and digest stimulation
mixing movements of large intestines
haustrations
propulsive movements of large intestines
mass movements (no shit! wait, it is shit!)
Propulsive movements of large intestines are just modified peristalsis. The purpose and distance?
MASS MOVEMENTS: to move feces to rectum and stimulate defecation reflex.
transverse colon to sigmoid colon
reflexes which initiate Mass (propulsive) Movements?
Gastro -colic (stomach to colon) reflex when distention of stomach

Duodeno-colic when duodenum distended
Mass (propulsive) movements aren't voluntary. They require G-C reflex and D-C reflexes so the ultimately involve the _____system
ANS
3 levels of control of defecation
1. intrinsic reflex
2. spinal cord reflex
3. involvement of higher centers
long loop reflex made only by ENS involving myenteric contraction when feces enters rectum, distending it.
INTRINSIC defecation reflex (hence, ENS only)
What is the only way, barring death or terror, defecation occurs via sphincters?
if the EXTERNAL sphincter voluntarily relaxes
Cord levels that provide sensory and motor fibers for defecation reflex
S2-S4 (parasympathetic)
the voluntary part of the intrinsic defecation reflex occurs when nerves from conscious motor cortex synapse with?
skeletal motor nerves that go to the external anal sphincter *voluntary so travels from conscious cortex, not a reflex loop
Which defecation reflex serves to INCREASE the intrinsic defecation reflex?
I'll take SPINAL CORD defecation reflexes for 100, Alex.
initiates Spinal Cord defecation reflex
rectal distention
nerve that controls external (voluntary) anal sphincter
pudendal nerve
What other effects do afferent signals from colon to cord cause?
deep breath, closure of glottis, increased abdominal pressure

(Dejerine's trouble in the latrine)
salivary gland secretion for carbohydrate digestion
amylase
salivary gland secretion for lipid digestion
lingual lipase
stomach secretions that initiate hydrolysis of proteins
HCl and proteases
pancreas secretions that continue the digestion began in the stomach of proteins/lipids
HCO3 (bicarbonate)
proteases
lipases
starches
function of liver/gall bladder for digestion
secretion and storage of bile acids for release to small intestine
final intraluminal digestion of foodstuffs
small intestine
where the membrane digestion of carbohydrate dimers and specific absorptive pathways for digest happen
small intestine
site of fluid (water) and electrolyte reabsorption and of bacterial products in the colon (vitamin K)
Large Intestine!