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What is the gastric mucosa for?
Protection (protects normal ulcer formation)
What are the 2 lines of defense of the gastric mucosa?
1) Muci-bicarb layer: 1st line of defense. As H+ penetrates, its neutralized by HCO3-. Most H+ won't reach epithelial
2) GMB (gastric mucosal barrier): Main defense, physiological barrier
What is reepitheliazation?
Rapid cell turnover
-> if H+ does penetrate the barrier, hurts the cells .: replace them very quickly
What are ulcers?
Break through of H+ past GMB
2 groups:
1)Normal HCl output
->Weak barrier
2) Normal barrier
->Excessive HCl output
What can cause group 1 ulcers?
Aspirin & NSAIDs: damage integrity of mucosa and increase permeability of H+
(NSAIDs: non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)
Heliobacter pylori
What can cause group 2 ulcers?
Very rare
->Gastrin producin tumours
What are the phases of gastric secretion?
Cephalic: psychic and gustatory
Gastric: as meal arrives in the stomach
Intestinal: when food arrives in stomach
Is there neural regulation at the level of the stomach?
Yes
->Vagus and sympathetic
Sympathetic: accompanied by vasoconstriction, inhibition of secretory activity
What regulates cephalic secretion?
**Vagus
sympathetic
Does the vagus innervae directly?
No, sends ACh that acts on nicotinic receptors which release ACh onto muscarinic receptors: cause parietal cells to secrete HCl
Peptic cells to release pepsin
Mucous cells to release mucin
Aso get Vasodilation (increase blood flow to the mucose)
What reflexes are part of the gastric phase?
Loca reflex
Vago-vagal reflexes
What do the local enterix reflexes do?
Cause Distension
->activates sensory enteric neurons
What do the vago-vagal reflexes do?
Has both sensory and effectors in vagus (vagal trunk)
What happens if ptns are out in the central region of the stomach?
Produce a lot of HCl
-> make very little pepsinogen and mucin
What are secretagogues?
Anything that causes secretion
What do secretagogues do?
Act on gastrin producing cells in ANTRUM to release gastrin
-> blood -> liver -> system
Stimulate secretion of very large volume, of very acidic gastric juice (cuz works mainly on parietal cells) .: a lot of HCl
What does the antral region do?
Stimulation of G-cells, which release hormnes (gastrin) in bloodstream (portal) than systemic
What is gastrin released in reponse to?
1) Secretagogues: products of ptn digestion
2) Local enteric reflexes (distension) which can activate exocrine gland. Enteric neurons can stimnulate gastrin producing cells to release the H
3) Vagally-mediated reflexes: results in release of gastrin
What does gastrin in the antrum do?
Acts specifically on parietal cells
What controls the cephalic phase?
Neural mechanism (mainly)
Hormonal (secondary)
What happens in the cephalic phase?
Vagally-mediated release of GASTRIN
How is gastrin self-regulating?
Negative fdbk mechanism
-G cell sensitive to pH in antrum
-if pH<2, then G cell shuts off, gastrin production stops
-less stimulation of parietal cells
-less acid made
-pH in antrum increasess
->G cell released from inhibition, back to Positive fdbk
Why is there inhibiton of G cells?
1) they may have pH receptors
OR
2) Somatostatin (SS) released in low pH inhibits G-cell
What are the 2 feedback mechanism on G cells?
Positive: secratagogues in antrum activate gastrin -> parietal cells: HCl
Negative fdbk: low pH acts on G cells
What are the physiological roles of gastrin?
1) HCl secretion
2) Trophic effect: promotes growth of an organ
What happens to parietal cells in the absence of gastrin?
Entire mucosa strophies and parietal cells decrease in number
What effect does Histamine have?
Lots of histamine in the gastric mucosa
Adding histamine makes a large volume of gastric juice (with a lot of HCl)
->Histamine has the same effect as gastrin
What is the receptor interaction hypothesis?
SEPARATE receptors
-> interaction among the 3 receptors (histamine, ACh, gastrin)
-Blockade/stimulation of one receptor changes the properties of one or both of the other 2 receptors
What is the permissive hypothesis?
(Paracrine fashion)
Histamine is cstly releasedand presented to the parietal cells as a tonic background, sensitizing them to other stimuli (ACh and Gastrin0
What happens if action of histamine is blocked by H2-antagonists??
Inhibits acid secretion in response to ACh and Gastrin
What are H2 blockers used for?
Decrease HCl secretion (by 70-80%)
Can also block the H+/K+ ATPase
Ex: Pepcid
Wha is entero-oxyntin?
Gastrin-like factor
may act on parietal cells to inc secretion of HCl
What is the intestinal phase (excitatory or inhibitory)? How?
Inhibitory
Entry of a meal in the duodenum will send a message to slow down gastric emptying
When chyme enters the duodenum, will give rise to inhibition of gastric juice secretion
What does the enterogastric reflex do?
Inhibits gastric motility and secretion (don't want to get too acidic)
How is the intestinal phase inhibitory (through which systems)?
Via ENS and ANS: inhibit gastric juice production in fundus/corpus
Enterogasric reflex: inhibits gastric emptying .: stay longer in the stomach)
What causes optimal secretory activity?
Interplay betweenneural and hormonal mechanisms
How is gastric secretion balanced?
Balanced between stimulatory and inhibitory influences
What mediates the cephalic phase?
Vagus
Vagally-released gastrin
What mediates the gastric phase?
Local enteric reflexes
Vago-vagal reflexes
Inhibition of/Gastrin release
What mediates the intestinal phase?
Excitatory and inhibitory aspects via enterogastric reflexes and enterogastrone hormonal complex release
What are the pre-intestinal changes that take place to the food?
1) REduced to semi-liquid consistency
2) Acidified: osmolarity doesn't change when entering the duodenum (.: can be hyper/iso/hypo-tonic) but will be isotonic when leaves the duodenum
3) Limited digestion
What does slaivary amylase do?
Polysac --> Disacc (in the mouth)
What does gastric pepsin do?
Some ptns --> polypeptides
What happens to lipids before they reach the intstine?
Not much changes
Lipids---> Di-, monoglycerides, FA
What happens in the upper intestine?
Neutralization: has to take place cuz the intestinal tract doesn't havr a protective barrier
Osmotic Equilibration: isotonic by the time it leaves duodenum (permeable to H2O)
Digestion continues
Absorption begins (no absorption before this)
What kind of components does the pancreas have?
Endocrine
Exocrine
What are the characteristics of pancreatic juice?
Vol: 0.5-1.5 L/day
Isotonic: 300mOsm
Main electrolytes: Na+, K+, Cl-. HCO3-
pH:7.2-8.2
What are the enzymes in the pancreas?
Amylases
Proteases
Lipases
(3g% protein: very large amount of ptn/100mL)
What does amylase do?
at pH 7
Polysac ---> Disac
What must happen to polysac before they are absorbed?
Disacs must firt be converted to monosac
Why are proteases secreted in the pancreas as proenz?
Don't want to break down ptn in the pancreas cuz can end up killing the pancreas
Where is trysinogen made?
Pancrea
What activates trypsin?
Enterokinase
Trypsinogen --> Trypsin

-Trypsin: + fdbk: activates trysinogen
Why is the activation of trypsin critical?
Activates a bunch of other inactive proteases
Chymotrypsinogen --> chymotrypsin
Proelastase --> Elastase
Procarboxypeptidase --> Carboxypeptidase
What does the trypsin inhibitor do?
Inactivates trypsin
What secretes the trypsin inhibitor?
The same cells that secrete proteases of the pancreas
->trypsin inhib prevents activation of trypsin, in the secretory cells and in the ducts of the pancreas
->since trypsin activates many of the other proteases, inhibiting trypsin inhibits activation of them too
What does colipase do?
Procolipase --Trypsin--> Colipase
Colipase helps lipase act effectively on fat molec in the lumen
Triglycerides --Lipase--> FA, Di/mono-glycerides (ph=8)
What do bile salts do?
Allow emulsification of fats. act as detergents, breaks large globules into smaller ones
Which organ secretes bile?
Liver
Does bile have digestive enz?
No
but is required for fat digestion
What does the sphincter of Oddi do?
Resistance will direct bile into gall bladder
Does the gall bladder synthesize bile?
No (just stores it)
Describe liver bile composition.
Volume: 0.5-1L/day
Isotonic fluid: Na+, K+, Cl-. **HCO3-
pH: 7.8-8.2
What are the solids in liver bile composition?
~3g%
Bile acids (salts)
Bile pigments
Cholesterol
Phospholipids
How is bile secreted?
Continuously *total vol of 0.5-1L/day)
How does bile enter the duodenum? Why?
Intermittently (colume of bile that enters <<<<<<<< 0.5-1L/day)
Why: during interdigestive period, sphincter of oddi is closed
.: bile goes through cystic duct -> gall bladder, where it is stored
What volume of can the gallbladder store?
50 mL
-> a lot of water and ions in the galls bladder will have been reabsorbed, making [solids] much higher -> 10-20%
What are the fcts on the gallbladder?
1) Concentrates solids:
hepatic bile 3%
**gall bladder bile 10-20% (because fluid is reabsorbed)
2) Reduces pH:
hepatic bile: 7.8-8.2
*Gallbladder bile: 7.0-7.5
3) Increases viscosity: also because mucin is excreted
What happens if the gall bladder is removed (cholesystectomy)?
Even when removed, there is enough bile salts to digest fat in the diluted bile