(09) Digestive System IV Flashcards

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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(the intestinal epithelium consists of a number of anatomically and physiologically different types of columnar cells)

  1. There are 8 types - name them
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  1. undifferentiated crypt cells (stem cells)
  2. goblet cells
  3. enteroendocrine cells
  4. paneth cells
  5. globular leukocytes
  6. M (microfold) cells
  7. intraepithelial lymphocytes
  8. intestinal absorptive cells (or enterocytes)
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Undifferentiated Crypt Cells (Stem cells))

  1. Located in what portion of gland?
  2. Divide to give rise to what?
  3. How often is intestinal epithelium replaced?
  4. What can occur if division is stopped (due to infection or poision for example)?
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  1. basal portion
  2. other epithelial cells
  3. every few days

4 entire epithelium may be sloughed

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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Goblet Cells)

  1. secrete what?
  2. Increase in numbers where in intestine?
  3. Type of mucin produced varies with what?
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  1. protective mucin
  2. caudally
  3. location
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Enteroendocrine Cells)

  1. several types scattered throughout what?
  2. Important in hormonal regulation of what?
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  1. surface and glandular epithelium
  2. GI functions
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Paneth Cells)

  1. Found only where in the gland?
  2. Have apical membrane bound granules which contain what?
  3. Probably control what?
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  1. the base (in horse, ruminants, man)
  2. lysozyme and peptidase
  3. microflora of the crypts
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Globular Leukocytes)

  1. Have large eosinophilic globules (granules)
  2. what is nucleus like?
  3. are intraepithelial as well as in lamina propria
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  1. small/heterochromatic
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(M (microfold) cells)

  1. Are special epithelial cells located where?
  2. Apical surfaces have what?
  3. They are derived from the same stem cells as what?
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  1. over lymphatic areas or nodules
  2. blunt microvilli or ridges
  3. other epithelial cells
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Intestinal lymphocytes)

  1. common or uncommon throughout intestine?
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  1. common
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(Intestinal Epithelial Cells)

(Intestinal absorptive cells or enterocytes)

  1. Numerous on surface of what in small intestine? what surface in large intestine? and in what in small and large intestine?
  2. Absorptive Cells are columnar with what that contain filaments? What do these accomplish?
  3. What join to seal lumen of gut?
  4. Cells have a basal nucleus and RER, abundant apical SER and golgi, and many mitochondria
  5. The glycocalyx that covers the microvilli serves as an anchorage site for what?
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  1. villi; laminal surface; glands
  2. apical microvilli; increase surface area of cell membrane (cause striated border seen in light microscope)
  3. apical tight junctions
  4. digestive enzymes secreted by the enterocyte and for pancreatic enzymes
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(The intestinal Enterocyte has many diverse functions)

  1. Active uptake of what? resulting from what? Are these passive or active transport processes? therefore a what?
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  1. small molecules (sugars, amino acids), digestive action of enzymes (anchored in glycocalyx); facilitated and active; transport epithelium
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(The intestinal Enterocyte has many diverse functions)

  1. Resynthesis of what from what which have diffused into cell? Formation of what droplets?
  2. Chylomicrons required membrane investment in the what? Released by exocytosis where? Triglyceride resynthesis occurs where and where?
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  1. triglycerides from fatty acids; glycoprotein droplets (chylomicrons)

  1. golgi; basolateral plasma membrane; SER and golgi
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(The intestinal Enterocyte has many diverse functions)

  1. Endocytosis in neonate takes what into absorptive cells of ilem and jejunum?
  2. Released where by exocytosis?
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  1. IgG
  2. basal membrane of enterocyte
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(The intestinal Enterocyte has many diverse functions)

  1. What are passed into the lumen to fight foreign invaders?
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  1. protease resistant IgAs
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(Secretions of Enterocytes)

  1. Enzymes secreted to glycocalyx for final steps in digestion of what?
  2. Active movement of what at basal membrane?
  3. What are released at lateral membranes by exocytosis?
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  1. proteins and carbohydrates
  2. ions
  3. chylomicrons
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