Block 5 Flashcards
What is the embryological origin of the GI tract?
Endoderm
What is the embryological origin of kidneys, gonads, connective tissue, and muscle
Mesoderm
What does the ectoderm of the embryo form?
Epidermal layer of the skin
What parts of GI are derived from the foregut?
Esophagus, stomach, proximal duodenum, liver, pancreas, lungs
What is dissolved to form the mouth?
Oropharyngeal Membrane
What parts of the GI are derived from the midgut?
Remaining small intestine, cecum, proximal colon
What parts of the GI system are derived from the hind gut?
Distal colon, rectum
What does the cloacal membrane dissolve into?
Anal orifice and urogenital opening
What is a very potent cell type in the colon?
Goblet cells for “poop lube”
In the upper GI, what are the regions that are covered with stratified epithelial cells?
Tongue, esophagus, oral cavity (gingiva)
In the upper GI, what type of regions contain actin in and ducts (simple cuboidal epithelium)
Salivary glands (parotid salivary gland, sublingual, zygomatic, mandibular)
What are the differentiating characteristics of the different regions of the small intestine?
Duodenum: Brunner’s Glands, potentially pancreas
Jejunum: Really long villi
Ileum: Peyer’s patches, small villi
What is the most common cell type of the intestine?
Enterocytes
What cells overly the Peyer’s Patches of the ileum?
M-cells aka GALT cells
Is the gingiva’s stratified squamous epithelium keratinized?
Sometimes
What type of cells line the tongue and what physical characteristics does it have?
Stratified squamous epithelium (may be keratinized) and the dorsal surface have papillae
The internal core of the tongue has skeletal muscle
What are acini and what are ducts?
Acini are cells that make and secrete saliva
Ducts are cells that convey saliva to the mouth
What are the two types of epithelial cells in acini?
Mucous: pale, basophilic (blue) to clear cytoplasm for lubrication
Serous: pale, eosinophilic (pink), granular cytoplasm for proteins that are digestive enzymes (amylase)
What are the 4 layers of the tubular GI?
Mucosa
Submucosa
Muscularis
Serosa
What 3 components make up the mucosa of the GI?
Epithelium
Lamina propria
Muscularis mucosae
Which type of feeder does not have any keratinization in their esophagus and which feeders have a lot of keratinization?
No keratinization in carnivores
Lots of keratinization in roughage eaters (ruminants)
What do the muscular layers of the pig and human’s esophagus look like?
Middle 1/3 = smooth + striated. Distal 1/3
What do the muscular layers of the esophagus for the cat and horse look like?
Proximal 2/3 skeletal muscle, distal 1/3 smooth muscle
What does the muscular layers of the dog and ruminants esophagus look like?
100% skeletal: Ruminants need to be able to chew their cud and dogs need to be able to voluntarily vomit
What is the only species where the squamous region of the stomach plays a large role?
Ruminants!
Which chambers of the ruminant stomach are stratified squamous epithelium and which are glandular (simple columnar epithelium)?
The rumen and reticulum are stratified squamous
The abomasum and omasum are both simple cuboidal
Which regions of the ruminants stomach is keratinized?
Rumen and reticulum
What is the composition of the rumenal lamina propria
NO SMOOTH MUSCLE
What is the composition of the reticulum’s lamina propria?
Isolated smooth muscle in the lamina propria
What is the composition of the omasum’s lamina propria?
3 different smooth muscle layers
What are the 4 main secretory products of the glandular stomach?
Hydrochloric acid
Mucous
Gastrin
Pepsin
What cell secrete pepsinogen?
Chief cells
What cells secrete hydrochloric acid?
Parietal cells
How do parietal cells show up in histology (eosinophilic (pink) or basophilic (blue))
Eosinophilic
How do chief cells show up in histology (eosinophilic (pink) or basophilic (blue))
Basophilic
Where are mucous cells in the stomach?
Present throughout
Where are chief cells and parietal cells?
More prevalent in fundus / body of stomach
Where are gastrin - producing cells present in the stomach?
More prevalent in the pylorus (can’t histologically distinguish)
What is the function of gastrin?
Gastrin secreted in the fundic region fo
What are the pouches of the colon called?
Haustra
What are the bands of the colon called?
Teniae coli
What are the glands in the duodenum?
Brunner’s Glands
What is the junction between glandular and non glandular regions of the equine stomach
Margo plicatus
Does the ventral or dorsal colon of the horse have haustra and teniae?
Ventral
Where are the two levels of ascending colon joined?
On the left side
At what anatomical point does the descending (small colon) turn into the rectum?
At the pelvic inlet
Talk through the horse GI from Ilium on
Ilium>RVC>sternal flexure>LVC>Pelvic flexure (on left)>LDC>diaphragmatic flexure>RDC>transverse colon>descending colon>rectum> anus
What rib does the diaphragm bulge toward to in the horse
6
on the left, Where is the liver in the horse
7-9 high
On the left, Where is the stomach of the horse
9-15 high
On the left, Where is the spleen of the horse
base: 15-18 high
Apex: 9-12 low
Does the small colon have teniae coli?
Yes
Does the small intestine have teniae coli?
NO
Does the ventral or dorsal large colon have teniae coli and haustra
VENTRAL
On the right side of the horse, where is the liver
7-16 high
On the right side of the horse, where is the liver
7-16 high
Where is the base, body, and apex of the cecum?
BAse: Right paralumbar fossa
Body: Against flank
Apex: located close to xyphoid process
Where is the root of the mesentery in the horse?
L1
Where is the right kidney of the horse?
T16,17,18. L1
Where is the left kidney of the horse?
T18. L1, L2, L3`
Where are the ovaries of the horse?
Half way between the tuber coxae and the last rib
What are the 2 surfaces of the liver and what way do they face?
Diaphragmatic surface: faces diaphragm
Visceral surface: Faces intestines
What are the 4 lobes of the liver?
Left lateral, left medial, quadrate, right
Is the caudate a lobe or a process of the liver in horses?
Process!
Where does the falciform ligament (round ligament) pass through on the liver?
The left medial and the quadrate lobes
What is the round ligament of the liver a remnant from?
Umbilical vein
What is the tendon on the liver that is from the central tendon of the diaphragm?
The coronary ligament
What are the 3 things in the porta of the liver?
Portal vein, hepatic artery, hepatic duct (bile)
What is the ligament between the stomach and spleen?
Gastrosplenic ligament
What is another name for the fundus of the stomach?
The blind sac
What are the 3 reasons that a horse rarely vomits?
Cardiac sphincter is very strong
Very acute angle of the esophagus
Folds of mucosa blocks opening
What is the region that allows the portal vein to pass through the pancreas in the horse?
The pancreatic ring
What are the 6 parts to the equine duodenum?
Cranial part of duodenum
Cranial duodenal flexure
Descending duodenum
Caudal duodenal flexure
Ascending duodenum
Duodenal jujunal flexure
What are the 2 openings on the major duodenal papillae
Pancreatic duct
Hepatic duct
What are the opening(s) on the minor duodenal papillae?
Accessory pancreatic duct
What is the landmark of mesenteric tissue that marks the end of the small intesting?
The ileocecal fold
What is the protuberance of ileum into the cecum called?
Ileal papilla
Where does the cecocolic ligament attach to?
Right ventral colon
How many bands does the cecum, RVC, LVC have?
4
How many bands does the LDC have?
1
How many bands the RDC have?
3
How many bands does the small colon have?
2
What is the telescoping of the intestine called?
Intussusception (commonly occurs at the ileocecal junction)
What are their 3 arteries that supply blood to the whole abdominal cavity in the horse?
Celiac
Cranial Mesenteric
Caudal Mesenteric
What 3 arteries branch off of the celiac artery in the horse?
Splenic
Left gastric (lesser curvature)
Hepatic
What artery supplies the spleen in the horse?
Splenic
What artery supplies the liver in the horse?
Hepatic
What artery supplies the lesser curvature of the stomach in the horse
Left gastric
What are the arteries of the cranial mesenteric in the horse to the small intestine?
Caudal pancreaticoduodenal artery
Jejunal artery
Ileal artery ->iliocolic artery
What artery supplies the duodenum in the horse?
Caudal pancreaticoduodenal artery
What artery supplies the jejunum of the horse?
Jejunal arteries
What arteries supply the ilium of the horse?
Ileal and ileocolic arteries
What arteries supply the colon of the horse?
Middle colic
Right colic
Ileocolic
Colic branch of ileocolic artery
What artery supples the transverse colon? in the horse
Middle colic artery
What artery supplies the left and right dorsal colon?
Right colic artery
What artery supplies the ventral colon?
Colic branch of the ileocolic
What artery supplies the cecum in a horse?
The cecal arteries (medial and lateral)
What artery supplies the small colon on the horse?
Caudal mesenteric artery
What are the branches of the caudal mesenteric artery?
Cranial rectal
Left colic
What artery supplies the proximal small colon in the horse?
Left colic (then anastomoses with middle colic)
What artery supplies blood to distal small colon and rectum?
Cranial rectum
How many ribs does a ruminant have?
13 (just like dog)
How many ribs does a horse have?
18
What are the borders of the paralumbar fossa of the cow?
Cranially: 13th rib
Caudal: tuber coxae
Dorsally: Transverse processes of lumbar vertebrae
Ventrally: Line of tension of internal abdominal oblique
Where is the site of incision for the paralumbar fossa?
Halfway between the ribs and tuber coxae
What do the grooves on the outside of the rumen contain?
Arteries and nerves
What do the longitudinal grooves of the rumen separate?
The ventral and dorsal sacs
What is the only “pillar” on the inside of the rumen that isn’t called a pillar?
Rumenoreticular fold
What is the groove within the rumen?
Gastric groove helps to shunt blood from esophagus to the abomasum
What are the 3 parts of the gastric groove?
Reticular groove
Omasal groove
Abomasal groove
What are the 3 arteries coming from the celiac artery in the cow?
Splenic
Left gastric
Hepatic
What are the 3 arteries that come from the splenic artery in the cow?
Reticular
Left ruminal
Right ruminal
What artery is the principal supply of blood to the rumen?
Right rumenal artery from splenic artery from celiac artery
What is the parasympathetic innervation of the rumen?
The dorsal and ventral ventral trunks
Where does the ilium empty in the cow?
Ileocecocolic orifice
What are the 3 parts to the ascending bovine colon?
Proximal loop
Spiral loop
Distal loop
What are the 3 parts of the spiral loop?
Centripetal gyri
Central flexure
Centrifugal gyri
What are the gyri going into the spiral loop?
Centripetal gyri
What are the gyri coming out the spiral loop?
Centrifugal gyri
What is the difference in the pancreas between small ruminants and bovine?
Small ruminants have a pancreatic duct emptying into the major papilla while bovine only have an accessory pancreatic duct emptying into minor papilla
Why are ruminant livers more vertical?
The rumen pushes everything right
Where is the gall bladder in teh cow located?
10th-11th intercostal space between right lobe and quad rate lobe
Where does the superficial leaf of the greater omentum attach in the cow?
The left longitudinal groove
Where does the deep leaf of the greater omentum attach in the cow?
Right longitudinal groove
What is the space between the superficial and deep leaf of the omentum called?
OMental bursa
What is the topographic region of flank?
Abdominal wall from ribs to thigh
What is the skin and cutaneous trunci bridging to thigh?
Fold of the flank
What is the innervation of the flank?
Costoabdominal nerve: Thoracic nerve #18 (T18)
Iliohypogastric nerve: L1
Ilioinguinal nerve: L2
Genitofemoral nerve: L3
Lateral cutaneous femoral nerve: L4
What muscle would you be cutting if you cut paramedical to the linea alba?
The rectus abdominus muscle
What is the cutaneous muscle over the shoulder region of the horse?
Cutaneous omobrachialis
Which direction does the external abdominal oblique muscles run?
Caudoventral (Jacket pockets)
Which direction do the internal abdominal oblique muscles run?
Cranioventral (up into jacket)
What muscle does the cremaster muscle originate from?
Internal abdominal oblique
What direction does the trans versus abdominis run?
Vertical
Which direction does rectus abdominus run?
Straight cranially
What are the internal boundaries of the abdomen?
Cranial: Diaphragm
Caudal: Pelvic Inlet
Dorsal: Paired hypaxial muscles and lumbar and sacral vertebrae
Where are the hypaxial muscles?
On the inside of the abdominal cavity, paired on each side of the lumbar vertebrae
What are the 3 paired abdominal hypaxial muscles?
Psoas major
Psoas minor
Quadratus lumborum
What are the hypaxial mm innervated by?
The ventral branches of lumbar nerves
What vital functions do the lateral abdominal muscles help with?
Expiration, urination, defecation, and parturition
What is the muscle that extended from prepublication tendon to sternum?
Rectus abdominis
What is the collagenous mass cranial to the pubic bone called?
Prepubic tendon
What is the fibrous connective tissue associated with the rectus abdominis?
Aponeurosis (rectus sheath)
What are the abdominal muscles from superficial to deep?
External abdominal oblique
Internal abdominal oblique
Transversus abdominis
What muscle is associated with cremaster m?
Internal abdominal oblique
What muscle is associated with teh inguinal ligament?
External abdominal oblique
What is the thin connective tissue attaching abdominal wall to peritoneum?
Transversalis fascia
What is the mideventral strip of collagenous tissue on the abdomen?
Where does it extend from and enter?
Linea alba
Xiphoid process to pelvic symphysis
Where are epaxial muscles?
Where are Hypaxial muscles?
Dorsal to vertebrae
Ventral to vertebrae
What are the 3 epaxial muscle systems (from lateral to medial)
(ILT)
Iliocostalis system
Longissimus system
Transversospinalis system
What is the layer that lines the abdominal cavity called?
Peritoneum (encloses peritoneal cavity)