(09-02) Digestive System IV (Innervation of the Digestive Tract and More!) Flashcards
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
- What coordinate activity of GI tract? What do fibers innervate?
- What fibers to these plexuses contain? (three types)
- Intramural nerve plexuses; smooth muscle and epithelial cells
- parasympathetic terminal ganglia and fibers (GVE), sympathetic fibers (GVE), sensory fibers (GVA)
(The intestinal Enterocyte has many diverse functions)
- What are entirely within the plexus and coordinate different segments of gut and different layers of wall?
- These must be intact for what to occur?
- This is what division of the parasympathetic nervous system?
- Can reflex arcs function without extrinsic input?
1. intrinsic interneurons
- peristalsis
- enteric division
- yes
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
- Submucosal Plexus (in T. submucosa)
contains which fibers that do what?
- GVA - sensory to epithelium
- GVE - motor to muscularis mucosae and blood vessels
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
Myenteric Plexus (between muscle layers of T. Muscularis)
- coordinates what?
- What are the fibers here?
- peristalsis
- GVA - stretch receptors
- GVE - motor to T. muscularis and blood vessels
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
(Extrinsic Innervation)
- what simulates smooth muscle activity?
- What depresses smooth muscle activity?
- parasympathetic
- sympathetic
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
(Summary of Some Important Points concerning the small intestine)
1-4. Digestive Enzymes Are produced by what 4 things?
- liver
- pancreas
- mucosal glands
- intestinal absorptive cells
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
1-3. Protective mucus comes from what three things?
(Summary of Some Important Points concerning the small intestine)
- goblet cells of epithelium
- intestinal mucosal glands
- submucosal glands of duodenum
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
1-3. Surface membrane area for absorption in increased by what 3 things?
(Summary of Some Important Points concerning the small intestine)
- plicae circularis
- villi
- microvilli
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
1-3. What are three protective features?
- together these constiture the what?
(Summary of Some Important Points concerning the small intestine)
- mucus which coats surface with unstirred layer
- bicarbonate to buffer acid stomach chyme
- apical junction complexes of epithelial cells which seal lumen
- intestinal mucosal barrier
(Innervation of the Digestive Tract)
- Cell division to replace the gland and surface epithelial cells occurs near where?
- Therefore, epithelial cells continually migrate towards what in the small and large?
(Summary of Some Important Points concerning the small intestine)
- the base of the intestinal glands (in contrast with gastric epithelium)
- the villi in the small intestine and luminal surface in large (where they are sloughed)
(Large Intestine)
- site of what action?
- Epithelium absorbs or secretes what? Secretes what? Absorbs products of what in non-ruminant herbivores?
- forms what mass?
- Are the colon, cecum, and rectum similar or different histologically?
- microbial action
- H2O and electrolytes; mucus; fermentation
- the fecal mass
- similar
(Large Intestine)
(T. mucosa)
- longitudinal folds in some areas
- have villi? What type of surface epithelium? What that open into luminal surface?
- Abundant goblet cells, also enterocytes and enteroendocrine cells
- l. propria has many free cells and numerous lymphtic nodules
- do large venous plexuses occur in rectum?
- no; “smooth” surface epithelium; deep mucosal glands
- yes
(Large Intestine)
(T. submucosa)
- may accumulate what?
- fat
(Large Intestine)
(T. muscularis)
- Outer longitudinal layer forms what in cecum and colon of what species?
- many elastic fibers
- bands (taenia); horse and pig
(Large Intestine)
(T. serosa)
- Covers large intestine except for most of rectum which has what?
- T. adventitia