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Food process

Ingestion


Digestion


Absorption


Elimination

Strategies for ingestion

Filter feeders: sift food particles from water (humpback whale), includes suspension feeders


Substrate feeders: animals that live on food source (worms, maggots)


Fluid feeders: suck fluids from host (mosquito)


Bulk feeders: eat relatively large pieces of food (humans, pythons)

Digestion

Process of breaking food down into molecules small enough to absorb


Mechanical and chemical

Chemical digestion

Splits food into small molecules that can pass through membranes through enzymatic hydrolysis (adding water to split binds)


Used to build larger molecules

Mechanical digestion

Chewing food to increase surface area of food

Absorption

Animals cells take up small molecules (amino acids, simple sugars) from digestive compartment

Elimination

Undigested material passes out of digestive compartment

Intercellular digestion

Particles of food are engulfed by phagocytosis and liquids by pinocytosis


Food vacuoles fuse with lysosomes with hydrolytic enzymes


These enzymes break food down

Extracellular digestion

Breakdown of food particles outside of cells


Occurs in compartments that are continuous with the outside of the animals body


Have a gastriovascular cavity (digest and distributes nutrients)

Complete digestive track or alimentary canal

Digestive tube with Mouth and anus (more complex body simple)


Deutoerosomes


Food moves in one direction, tube is organized into special regions to digest and absorb in an stepwise fashion


Mammalian digestive system

2 openings


Long tube-gastrointestinal tract


Accessory glands (liver, gallbladder, pancreas )


Special compartments: pharynx, esophagus, stomach, sm. Intestine, lrg intestine, rectum, anus


Nerves and hormones control digestive activities

Oral cavity

First stage of digestion: both mechanical and chemical


Teeth of various shapes increase surface area


The mouth

Lips: orbicularis Oris muscle


Cheeks: mass eater and buccinator muscles


Tongue: skeletal muscle, taste buds


Uvula: projection in back keeps from stuff going in nasal passage


Tonsils and adenoids: lymphoid tissue, immunocompetent tissue, 1st line of defense against ingested or inhaled pathogens

Salivary glands

Saline to lubricant food


1. Parotid: stensens ducts


2. Submandibular: Wharton’s ducts


3. Sublingual

Saliva contains...

Amylase: enzyme, hydrolysizes starch and glycogen into smaller molecules (maltose), also releases food particles stick in teeth


Mucus: viscous mix of water, salt, cells, and glycoproteins (protects mouth from abrasions, lubricates food for swallowing)


Buffers: neutralize acid to prevent tooth decay


Lysozyme: antibacterial agent, targets peptidogylcan cell wall in bacteria

Process of swallowing

Tongue: shapes food into bolus, moves food back to pharynx


Pharynx: throat, opens to esophagus and trachea


Esophagus: connects to stomach (muscle tube usually collapsed except during swallowing)


Trachea: leads to lung

Peristalsis

Rhythmic contraction of smooth muscle that moves food down esophagus

Parts that help move food

Soft palate: closes off the nesopharynx


Trachea moves upward, epiglottis does to downward position


Sphincter (ring like valve) muscle: closes esophagus from stomach (relaxing it allows food to move through)

Extra swallowing image

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4 layers of digestive tract

1. Mucosa


2. Submucosa


3. Muscularis


4. Serosa

Mucosa

Simple columnar epithelial cells supported by connective tissue and smooth muscle


Lines lumen


Glandular epithelial cells produce enzymes


Goblet cells produce mucus

Submucosa

Loose connective tissue


Contains blood vessels


Peyers patches- lymph node nodules (helps protect from disease)

Muscluaris

2 layers of smooth muscle


-circular inner layer encircles tube


-longitudinal outer layer running perpendicular

Serosa

Squamous epithelium


Secretes serous fluid to moisten surface (prevents abrasions as organs slid against one another)

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Esophagus

Upper 1/3: striated muscle, voluntary control


Lower 2/3: smooth muscle layers of circular and longitudinal fiber arrangement (food is pushed through, peristalsis contractions, involuntary)

Sphincter valves

Regulates the movement of material btw compartments


Esophagus: gastroesophageal


Pyloric: gastric duodenal


Iieocecal


Internal and external of rectum

Stomach digestion

Receives food from thoracic cavity


Stomach is in abdominal cavity, stores food and begins digestion of proteins


Secretes gastric juice, mixes it with food by churning action of smooth muscles in stomach wall


This mixture is called chyme

Stomach

J-shaped organ with thick walls due to 3 layers of muscle (oblique, circular, longitudinal)


These muscles mechanically digest and stretch. Churning motion


Rugae- 4 according-like folds of mucosa


Controls movement of chyme into sm intestine

Chemical digestion

Two components of gastric juices: HCL and protease (pepsin)


HCL: Chyme has a pH of 2 (could dissolve a nail) allows for-kills bacteria, break down extracellular matrix and denatures proteins (exposing peptide bonds)


Protease: protein digesting enzyme called pepsin (adapted to acidic environments) attacks peptide bonds when exposed to make proteins smaller and further expose ingested tissue

Pepsin

Portease or protein digesting enzyme


Cleaves proteins into smaller amino acids at peptide bonds (phenylaline, tryptophan, tyrosine)

Gastric pit of stomach


3 types of cells: mucous, chief, parietal


Parietal and chief cells produce components of gastric juices

Mucous cells

Secrete mucus and protect cell lining from pepsin


Adds new layer of epithelial cells every 3 days to replace before lining is fully eroded (when this is ineffective, ulcers appears)


Acid tolerant bacteria, pylori, causes ulcers


Chief cells

Secrete inactive pepsinogen


HCL clips off small portion of molecule and exposes its active site, activating pepsin (forms in lumen of stomach, not in cells to protect them)


Positive feedback system: activated pepsin stimulates more pepsinogen molecules

Parietal cells

Secrete hydrogen and chloride ions separately into lumen of stomach (Use ATP pump for H ions, Cl-diffusion)


This prevents harm to cells

Digestion

Empties every 2-6 hours after a meal


Contracts and relaxes muscle to churn food every 20 seconds


Foods are not absorbed in stomach but alcohol and other liquids are

Stomach dynamic

Backflow of acid chyme: from stomach into lower esophagus (acid reflux) due to sphincter at top of stomach, irritates esophagus creating “heartburn”