Duodenum

When I look at the food that I consumed for Friday night, I have realized that my diet contains few vegetables and fruits. Furthermore, I did not take any dairy food. When I went to Choose My Plate website, I entered my age: 21, height: 156 cm, weight: 48 kg, and exercise 40-60 minutes a day. According to this website, it suggests that I intake 2000 calories per day. My dairy food plan recommends that I have 6 ounces of grains, 2.5 cups of vegetables, 2 cups of fruits, 3 cups of dairy, and 5.5…

Assignment 4 Prefix means to fix before or to fix to the beginning of a word. Prefixes are united with or placed at the beginning of words to alter or modify their meanings or to create entirely new words. A root word or word element from which other words are formed. It is the foundation of the word. The root conveys the central meaning of the word and forms the base to which prefixes and suffixes are attached for word modification. A combining form is a world root to which a vowel has been…

point even though he knew the implications of what would happen to him. There were some interesting facts also that went into the bacterium in that infects the people who contain the species as a reservoir and that is involved in nearly all of the duodenum ulcers. The reason why I find those facts so interesting is that I have a history with ulcers in that from time to time my upper abdomen would start to hurt and I would get nauseous along with very bloated, I always thought I had a bad…

this particular hormone (Furuta et al., 2001). It is in the intestines where the production of Oxyntomodulin takes place predominantly, more specifically the L-cells, which are found mainly in the ileum and the colon, but can also be seen in the duodenum and jejunum, it should be noted also that Oxyntomodulin is also found in the brain (Drucker and Nauck, 2006). It is in…

Little Red Riding Hood Revisited by Russell Baker In an effort to make the classics accessible to contemporary readers, I am translating them into the modern American language. Here is the translation of the Little Red Riding Hood: Once upon a point in time, a small person named Little Red Riding Hood initiated plans for the preparation, delivery, and transportation of foodstuffs to her grandmother, a senior citizen residing at a place of residence in a wooded area of indeterminate…

1. My model represents the digestive system excluding the mouth. The function of the digestive system is to ingest food, extract valuable nutrients from it, then excrete the wastes. The structure of the digestive system assists this function in many ways. The mouth is able to chew the food that we eat into smaller, easier to digest pieces (Cleveland). In addition to this, it adds saliva to the food which helps with the digestive process because it contains an enzyme called amylase which breaks…

the body is the Bicarbonate Buffer System. The bicarbonate buffer system is an acid/base mechanism which involves the balance of Carbonic Acid (H_2 〖CO〗_3), Bicarbonate Ion (〖HCO〗_3^-), and Carbon Dioxide (〖CO〗_2) so that the pH in the blood and duodenum can be maintained, among all other tissues and to support metabolic functions. A catalyzed reaction also takes place forming this equation: 〖CO〗_2+H_2 O⇋H_2 〖CO〗_3⇋〖HCO〗_3^-+H^+ What is hypertonic solution and a hypotonic…

the blood so it can be transported to the liver where it is then taken by the hepatocytes and then conjugated with glucuronic acid by an enzyme so it can become water soluble. The conjugate bilirubin is then excreted in bile and then on into the duodenum. Adults conjugated bilirubin can be reduced by bacteria in the gut to urobilin and then excreted, but infants have less bacteria in their digestive-tracts and in turn, less bilirubin is condensed to urobilin and excreted. Infants also have the…

higher doses of the pancreatic enzymes.1 Pharmacology: Creon’s mechanism of action is very simple. It’s composed of porcine pancreatic glands: lipase, amylase and protease. The capsule is designed to dissolve in the slightly more basic pH of the duodenum rather than the stomach so that they can break down fats, protein and starches.5 Pharmacokinetics: Absorption It is not significantly absorbed in the…

Name of disease and locus: Cystic Fibrosis is caused by a mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator gene (CFTR; 602421). The gene is located on the long (q) arm of chromosome 7 at position 31.2. There are 5 different mutations of this gene that can cause cystic fibrosis. Frequency: 1 in 2500 newborn infants are born with cystic fibrosis. In 2013 just over 10,000 people were recorded to have cystic fibrosis in the UK. The most common mutation of the CFTR gene is…