17.4 Digestive system Flashcards
GI epithelium
innermost lining of lumen
EPITHELIAL CELLS (same as outer surface of the body and inner surface of respiratory tract)
TIGHT JUNCTIONS = impermeable
skeletal muscle and cardiac muscles are STRIATED (striped)
GI muscle is smooth
GI HAS functional syncytium
GI nerve impulses spread to neighboring cells
It’s own nervous system
two networks of neurons: MYENTERIC PLEXUS and SUBMUCOSAL plexus
MYENTERIC found between circular and longitudinal muscle layers, regulates GUT MOTILITY
SUBMUCOSAL regulates enzyme secretion, gut blood flow, and ion/water balance in the lumen (SPARSE in anus and esophagus)
EXOCRINE ORGANS
release of enzymes from LIVER, GALLBLADDER, and PANCREAS
also GASTRIC GLANDS of stomach are EXOCRINE - secrete pepsinogen (protease zymogen) and acid
MUSCUS-SECRETION from GOBLET cells (all over the GI tract) - produces mucous membrane
SECRETION OF WATER (GALLONS) are secreted and reabsorbed in the small intension or colon
salivary amylase = hydrolyzes starch
also called PTYALIN
saliva also contains LINGUAL LIPASE for fat digestion
NO DIGESTION OF PROTEINS IN MOUTH
Lysozyme = breaks down bacterial cell walls (innate immunity)
epiglottis
an cartilaginous flap that blocks water/food from trachea
lower esophageal sphincter
at end of esophagus, PREVENTS reflux
Stomach
pH = 2
- HCl is secreted by parietal cells, located in the gastric mucosa (“Acidic parents”)
- HCl converts of pepsinogen to pepsin (BREAKS PROTEINS DOWN TO AAs)
- proenzyme (INACTIVE ZYMOGEN - activated by CLEAVAGE/PROTEOLYSIS at a specific site) is pepsinogen, which is released by the CHIEF cells of stomach wall; activated by HCl
- pepsinogen unfolds in low acidity, and cleaves itself in AUTOCATALYTIC fashion (pepsin cleaves pepsinogen, removing 44 amino acids)
- HCl hydrolyzes some polysaccharides
- HCl hydrolyzes polypeptides into FRAGMENTS
chyme
food with gastric secretion
cholecystokinin (stomach emptying)
secreted by epithelial cells of the duodenum, which inhibits the opening of the pyloric sphincter (more food in duodenum) inhibits stomach emptying
Cholecystokinin releases digestive enzymes from pancreas and gallbladder
a hunger suppressant
small intenstine
duodenum, JEJUNUM, ILEUM
10 feet long, 25 feet long when dead
Peyer’s patches
immune system
lymphocytes dotting the villi, confer immunity to gut pathogens
ILEUM
Also known as aggregated lymphoid nodules
Pancreas
digestive enzymes and BICARB exits by PANCREATIC DUCT
shares the SPHINCTER OF ODDI with common bile duct
bile acid sequestrants BIND TO BILE ACIDS and are secreted into the DUODENUM as FECES
drugs which bind acids in the small intestine, causing them to remain in GI lumen and excreted as feces