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2C A&P and Pathology of the Pancreas Flashcards

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What does the endocrine part of the pancreas produce?

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Insulin, glucagon, plasma glucose regulation

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What does the exocrine part of the pancreas produce?

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Pancreatic juice

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What are the two function of pancreatic juice?

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Source of bicarbonate to neutralize gastric acid. Source of many digestive enzymes

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What is the pancreas shaped like?

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Like the letter L

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Where is the head of the pancreas? Tail?

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Short arm of L close to the duodenum. The tail is the long arm of the L furthest from the small instenstine

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What are the lighter staining areas of pancreatic tissue?

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Islets of Langerhans (endocrine)

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What kinds of cells are in the pancreatic islets?

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Alpha, Beta, and Delta cells

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What does the exocrine part of the pancreas look like histologically?

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Stains dark

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What percent of the pancreas consists of exocrine cells? Endocrine cells?

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90% exocrine, 10% endocrine

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What are exocrine cells surrounded in?

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Pancreatic acini

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What does the pancreatic juice have a lot of?

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Bicarb and enzymes

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What is the typical pH of pancreatic juice?

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7.6-8.2

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How much pancreatic juice is secreted per day?

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About 1500 mL

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How does the pancreatic juice get to the duodenum?

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Via the man pancreatic duct

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Is pancreatic juice alkaline or acidic?

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Alkaline

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What else, besides pancreatic juice helps to neutralize the gastric acid in the duodenum?

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Bile and intestinal juices are also neutral or alkaline

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What pH are the duodenal contents raised to?

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6.0 to 7.0

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Which duct merges with the main pancreatic duct?

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Common bile duct

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Before reaching the sphincter of Oddi, does the bile duct and pacreatic duct each have their own spincters?

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Yes, sir!

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What does the sphincter of Oddi do?

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Regulates the flow thru the papilla of vater

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What is the opening into the duodenum from the common bile duct called?

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Papilla of Vater

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What enzymes are included in the pancreatic juice?

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Pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, colipase, trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, procarboxypeptidase (A/B), proelastase, ribonuclease, deoxyribonuclease

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Which four enzymes of pancreatic juice are proteases (breakdown proteins)?

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Trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, procarboxypeptidase (A/B), proelastase

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What are proteases initially secreted as?

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Proenzymes

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What is the brush border enzyme that activates trypsinogen into trypsin?
Enterokinase
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What does trypsin do?
Converts his proenzyme protease friends into enzymes - Chymotrypsinogen into chymotrypsin; proelastase into elastase; procarboxypeptidase into carboxypeptidase
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T/F Enterokinase deficiency can occur as a congenital abnormality
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Why are trypsin inhibitors normally produced in pancreatic tissue?
Since trypsin can cause a chain reaction activating several active enzymes too soon, this is a way to prevent these enzymes from digesting the pancreas
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How do we control the flow of pancreatic juice?
Hormonally and neurally?
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Pancreatic juice is primarily under what control?
Hormonal
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What does secretin do?
Acts on the pancreas to cause copious secretion of a very alkaline pancreatic juice that is rich in bicarb and low in enzymes
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What does CCK do?
Stimulates production of pancreatic juice rich in enzymes and low in bicarb
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Which nervous system also causes secretion of a small amount of pancreatic juice rich in enzymes?
ParaSNS
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Which is a more potent stimulator of pancreatic juice rich in enzymes, CCK or ParaSNS?
CCK
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What is acute pancreatitis?
A severe, life threatening disorder associated with the escape of activated pancreatic enzymes into the pancreas and surrounding tissues
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Do pancreatic digestive enzymes normally leak into the circulation? So why does acute pancreatitis occur
Yes. However, during acute pancreatitis the circulating levels of the digestive enzymes rise markedly
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How is pancreatitis measured in the plasma?
Pancreatic amylase or pancreatic lipase is of value in diagnosing problems associated with inflammation and necrosis of pancreatic acinar cells
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What is fat necrosis?
Autodigestion of the pancreas that produces fatty deposits in the abdominal cavity w/ hemorrhage fro the necrotic vessels
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What do most cases of acute pancreatitis result from?
Gallstones (stones in the common bile duct) or alcohol abuse
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Where do galls stones form?
Liver where bile is made or in the gall bladder where bile is stored. Most of the time they form in the gall bladder
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Where does the gall stone have to get stuck to get pancreatitis?
At the opening to the duodenum
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Why is it a problem is bile backs up into the pancreas?
There are some things in the bile that can activate the pancreatic enzymes in the pancreatic juice - biliary reflux
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What is the most common initial symptom of pancreatitis?
Severe epigastric and abdominal pain that radiates to the back. Pain is aggravated when person is supine
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What is an important disturbance related to acute pancreatitis?
Loss of large volume of fluid into the abdominal cavity
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What are some other symptoms of pancreatitis?
Tachycardia, hypotension, cool and clammy skin, fever. Signs of hypocalcemia may develop. Mild jaundice many appear after the first 24 hours
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What does pancreatic cancer usually refer to?
Ductal adenocarcinoma of the pancreas.
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Where do more than 95% of malignant neoplasms of the pancreas arise?
From exocrine elements and are referred to as exocrine pancreatic cancers
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What are the most common presenting symptoms in pts with exocrine pancreatic cancer?
Pain, jaundice, and weight loss
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Where are 60-70% of exocrine pancreatic cancers localized? Where is the rest?
In the head of the pancreas. 20-25% are in the body/tail and the remainder involve the whole organ
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Compared to tumors in the body and tail of the gland, pancreatic head tumors more often present with what?
Jaundice, steatorrhea, and weight loss
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What is the only potentially curative treatment for exocrine pancreatic cancer?
Surgical resection
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What is the 5 year survival following pancreatico-duodenectomy?
25-30% for node-negative and and 10% for node-positive tumors
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What are the major risk factors for pancreatic cancer?
Cigarette smoking, high BMI and lack of physical activity, history of chronic pancreatitis
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Is there a familial aggregation and/or genetic factor w/ pancreatic cancer?
5-10% of pts have a first degree relative with the disease
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What is the most common lethal genetic disease among whites?
Cystic fibrosis
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What does Cystic Fibrosis (CF) result from?
A defect in Cl- channels that is caused by a mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene
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What are the characteristics of CF?
Malfunction of exocrine glands, resulting in increased viscosity of mucus and increased chloride concentration in sweat and tears
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What are clinical manifestations of CF?
Chronic pulmonary disease, pancreatic insufficiency, meconium ileus
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Where is the CFTR channel found?
In a lot of exocrine tissues - exocrine tissues in the lungs it makes mucus - goblet cells. Exocrine cells in the pancreas are making pancreatic juice. Also, exocrine cells in the small intestine that are making mucus - again goblet cells
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What happens to concentrations Cl- and Na+ inside cells when CFTR channels are missing?
Cl- cannot enter the cell and as a result neither can Na+, since it would enter to balance the electric charge
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What is a way to test if you have CF?
Test sweat to see if it has a high concentration of Cl-
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What is the end result of these electrolytes not being enter the cells?
The fluids get really thick and viscous - so the mucus you make in your airways is really thick (clogs up airways), sweat is thicker, pancreatic juice is thicker, all the mucus in your intestines is very thick
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What is meconium ileus?
The mucus in your intestines gets really thick that it creates blockage and food and fecal matter cannot get thru
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What happens to Cl- in the lungs of someone that has CF?
Cl- cannot get out of the cells, so Na+ is brought into the airway cells bringing water with it and the mucus gets really thick making it harder to breathe

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