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11/16: Accessory Digestive Organs Flashcards

1
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What are the major functions of the liver?

A
  • Detoxification of metabolic waste (e.g., deamination of AA’s –> urea)
  • Metabolism & detoxification of drugs & toxins (e.g., alcohol,
    antibiotics)
  • Destruction of senescent RBC’s
  • Recycling of Hb via synthesis & secretion of bile
  • Synthesis of plasma proteins (clotting factors, albumin,
    lipoproteins)
  • Miscellaneous metabolic functions (fat, carbohydrate,
    proteins, etc.)
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How do the products of digestion enter the liver via?

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Hepatic portal vein

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What percent of blood is carried to the liver via the hepatic portal v?

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75-80%

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What else does the hepatic circulation carry?

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potentially toxic compounds absorbed from diet to liver to be conjugated or detoxified

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How is oxygenated blood supplied to the liver via?

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Hepatic artery, a branch of celiac trunk

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What does the hapatic artery split into?

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R/L hepatic Aa in hepatic lobules

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What percent of blood does the hepatic artery carry?

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20-25% of blood to liver

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What does the hepatic artery blood mix with?

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UNoxygenated blood from portal V to perfuse liver cells

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Describe the liver in regardes to nutrients and O2

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Nutrient rich, but O2 poor environment

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What is the venous drainage via?

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Lobules via central vv -> hepatic v -> IVC

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11
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What are the cells found in the liver?

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Hepatocytes
Endothelial cells
Kupffer cells
Stellate cells (Ito cells)

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12
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What is the main functional cell?

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Hepatocytes

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13
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How are hepatocytes arranged?

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In plates or cords around sinusoids

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14
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Where are endothelial cells found?

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Line the sinusoids

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15
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What are liver-specific macrophages?

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Kupffer cells

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16
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What cells store vitamin A?

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Stellate cells (Ito cells)

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17
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What is the structure of hepatocytes?

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Diploid, but some polyploid or binucleate

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18
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What do hepatocytes contain?

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Large #s of cytoplasmic granules (rER and lysosomal products) and storage products

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19
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What do aging hepatocytes accumulate?

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Brown pigment, lipofuscin

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20
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Describe the structure and arrangement of individual hepatocytes

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polygonal, arranged in anastomosing cords

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21
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What are hepatocytes paralleled by?

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Venous sinusoids

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What are sinusoids lined by?

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Sinusoidal lining cells, a discontinuous endothelium, with gaps between endothelial cells

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What are hepatic cords and sinusoids supported by?

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Meshwork of reticulin fibers (Type III collagen)

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What is found within sinusoids and space of disse?

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Phagocytic Kupffer cells

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25
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What is occasionally between hepatocytes?

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Stellate or Ito cells

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26
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What are stellate or Ito cells?

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fat- storing cells containing lipid droplets, used for Vit A & D, storage

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27
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Describe the cytoplasm of a kupffer cell

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Packed with black carbon particles

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28
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How can Kupffer cells be recognized?

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by their oval nuclei closely associated with sinusoidal spaces

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29
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Describe the appearance of endothelial cells

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Similar to kupffer, but with thinner (flatter) and denser
nuclei and with less conspicuous cytoplasm

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30
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What do hepatocytes that comprise the hepatic cords have?

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Round nuclei surrounded by abundant cytoplasm

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31
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What is the function of Kuppfer cells?

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remove foreign particles, they also work with the spleen to destroy old RBCs

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What happens to a stellate cell in liver injury?

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Becomes a transitional cell or
myofibroblast-like cellW

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33
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What is the function of a stellate cell in liver injury?

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capable of synthesising collagen types I, III and IV as well as lamini

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What is a thin, discontinuous, highly fenestrated endothelium that does not rest on a basement membrane?

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Hepatic sinusoids

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35
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What are hepatic sinusoids separated from the hepatocytes by?

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The space of Disse or the perisinusoidal space

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36
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Where are hepatic sinusoids found?

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In the liver between a hepatocyte and a sinusoid

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37
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What do hepatic sinusoids contain?

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Blood plasma

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38
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Where do microvilli of hepatocytes exten?

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Into the hepatic sinusoids

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What does the extension of microvilli allow for?

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Proteins and other plasma components from the sinusoids to be absorbed by the hepatocytes

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What kind of vascular channels are found within hepatic sinusoids?

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Low resistance that allow blood to come into contact with hepatocytes over a large surface area

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41
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What is the flow of bile made by?

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Hepatocyte & secreted into bile canaliculi between cells

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42
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What are the 3 concepts of liver lobules?

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Classic hepatic lobule
portal lobule
Hepatic acinus of rappaport

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43
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What is the organization of hepatic lobules?

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Cords of hepatocytes arranged in lobules

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44
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What is a classic lobule?

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Based on blood flow; roughly hexagonal, with central vein in middle of lobule

45
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What is the outer margin of each lobule delimited by?

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Thin, connective tissue septum

46
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What is located at each “corner” of a classic lobule?

A

Portal tracts/triads

47
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What do portal tracts/triads contain?

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Hepatic A, br. portal V, L, and bile duct

48
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How does blood enter from portal tracts, percolates through?

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Sinusoids of lobule

49
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What drains portal tracts?

A

Central vein

50
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What is a triangular area; based on bile flow (opposite to blood flow)?

A

Portal lobule

51
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What makes up a portal lobule?

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Portal triad in center and central vv at corners

52
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What is an acinus?

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Diamond shaped region between neighboring central vv

53
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Where are central vv located in hepatic acini?

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Along longitudinal axis with portal tracts at sides

54
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What aspects make up the hepatic ascini?

A

Blood flow, oxygenation, metabolism and pathology

55
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What is an acinus divided into?

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3 zones - 1,2,3

56
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What do hepaticytes in different zones have?

A

Different metabolic environments

57
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Describe the 3 zones of the hepatic acini

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Zone 1—(perilobular zone = periportal)— closest to portal tract
Zone 2—(intermediate zone)
Zone 3—(centrolobular zone)—furthest from portal tract, closest to central V

58
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What receives most oxygenated blood;
also most susceptible to toxic injury?

A

Zone 1

59
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What receives least oxygenated blood; most
susceptible to ischemic injury?

A

Zone 3

60
Q

How does the liver function in detoxification or metabolism of drugs, toxins, metabolites?

A

Via microsomal mixed function
oxidase system of sER, or peroxidases of peroxisomes (P450 system)

61
Q

What is cirrhosis characterized by?

A

hepatic degeneration & necrosis, followed by fibrosis & nodular regeneration

62
Q

What is associated
with cirrhosis (due to fibrosis,
blockage of blood flow)?

A

Portal hypertension

63
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Does the liver have the ability to regenerate?

A

Yes

64
Q

What is the muscular sac located in depression
along surface of liver?

A

Gallbladder

65
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What is the gallbladder used for?

A

Store & concentrate bile;
volume ~100 ml

66
Q

What is the gallbladder lined by?

A

Simple columnar epithelium
with apical microvilli

67
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What is the microvilli in the gallbladder used for?

A

Resorption of water

68
Q

What does the gallbladder lack?

A

A muscularis mucosae

69
Q

What is the lamina propria highly folded with?

A

Occassional tubuloalceolar mucus glands

70
Q

What stimulates contraction of gallbladder?

A

CCK (Cholecystokinin)

71
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What are components of bile?

A

Water, ions, electrolytes, cholesterol + phospholipids (= lecithin), bile acids (= bile salts) & bile pigments

72
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What is the best known bile pigment?

A

Bilirubin

73
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What is the non-sol breakdown product of Hb

A

Bilirubin

74
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What happens in a failure to absorb bilirubin or failure to conjugate it and secrete?

A

accumulation of bile
pigments & jaundice

75
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What does supersaturation of bile cause?

A

Gallstones (biliary calculi, cholelithiasis)

76
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What does obstruction of bile ducts (choledocolithiasis) cause?

A

Bile stasis, or jaundice (icterus) if severe

77
Q

What is chronic inflammation of the gallbladder?

A

Cholecystitis

78
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What is the removal of the gallbladder?

A

Cholecystectomy

79
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What happens following a cholecystectomy?

A

unable to concentrate bile; need to limit ingestion of fats

80
Q

What is a highly lobulated gland with thin, connective tissue capsule, located in bend of duodenum?

A

Pancreas

81
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What components does the pancreas have?

A

Endocrine and exocrine

82
Q

Where is ductless endocrine pancreatic tissue located?

A

In islets of langerhans

83
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Most of the pancreas is ______

A

Exocrine (i.e. with ducts) - a compound, acinar, serous gland

84
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What is densely packed in the pancreas?

A

Serous acini contain pyramidal secretory cells surrounding a central lumen (duct)

85
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What do acinar cells contain?

A

Zymogen granules (inactive enzyme precursors)
e.g., trypsinogen (=
protrypsin),
chymotrypsinogen (=
prochymotrypsin),
amylase, lipase

86
Q

What are proteases?

A

Trypsin and chymotrypsin

87
Q

What breaks down carbohydrates?

A

Amylase

88
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What do lipases digest?

A

Lipids

89
Q

Where do the secretory acini empty into?

A

Intercalated ducts

90
Q

What can intercalated ducts differentiate into?

A

Add bicarbonate and water to pancreatic sections; neutralize acidic chyme from stomach -> optimal pH for pancreatic enzymes

91
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What forms the beginning of intercalated ducts?

A

Duct cells

92
Q

What is sometimes visible in the center of acini?

A

Centro-acinar cells

93
Q

Where do intercalated ducts empty into?

A

Larger intralobular ducts

94
Q

Where do intralobular ducts exit into?

A

Interlobular (=extralobular) ducts

95
Q

How do pancreatic secretions enter the duodenum?

A

Via pancreatic duct at major duodenal papilla

96
Q

What are the principle regulators of exocrine pancreas?

A

Polypeptide hormones secreted by enteroendocrine (APUD) cells

97
Q

What is primarily secreted by stomach?

A

Gastrin

98
Q

What secretes gastrin?

A

G cells of pyloric stomach

99
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What does gastrin do?

A

Stimulates secretion of pancreatic fluid

100
Q

What 3 things are secreted by duodenum?

A

Secretin
CCK
Enterokinase

101
Q

What is secretin secreted by?

A

S cells

102
Q

What does secretin do?

A

stimulates secretion of bicarbonate by cells of intercalated ducts

103
Q

What is CCK (Cholecystokinin = pancreozymin) secreted by?

A

I cells

104
Q

What does CCK do?

A

Stimulates acinar cells to secrete zymogen

105
Q

What does enterokinase do?

A

converts trypsinogen -> trypsin (within small intestine), which converts chymotrypsinogen -> chymotrypsin (digests proteins)

106
Q

What prevents the pancreas from digesting itself?

A

Cascade rxn

107
Q

What is an autodigestion of pancreas brought on by alcoholism?

A

Pancreatitis

108
Q

What does the cascade rxn break down?

A

Premature conversion of chymotrypsinogen to chymotrypsin & autolysis

109
Q

Is severe, acute pancreatitis fatal?

A

Yes within hours

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