Digestion 5 & 6: Control, Disorders, and Diseases Flashcards

1
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3 phases of GI activity. The name of the phase tells you…

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1) cephalic phase
2) gastric phase
3) intestinal phase

where the activity begins

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Cephalic phase: excitatory // inhibitory?

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excitatory; promote movement and digestion of material

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Gastric phase: excitatory // inhibitory?

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excitatory; promote movement and digestion of material

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Intestinal phase: excitatory // inhibitory?

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inhibitory: slows digestion → stops digestion

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5
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Cephalic phase is activated when…

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seeing, smelling, tasting, thinking about food

  • activates salivary reflex
  • short duration: ends when bolus enters esophagus
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when does the cephalic phase end?

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when bolus enters esophagus

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process of swallowing (CNS)

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food in mouth → CN IX, X → swallowing center (medulla) → CN V, VII, IX, X, XII → swallowing

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CN =

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cranial nerve

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effect of cephalic phase on stomach

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  • Swallowing activates CN X
  • X stimulate submucosal plexus
    → mucous cells → mucus
    → chief cells → pepsinogen
    → Parietal cells → HCl
    → G cells → gastrin
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Effect of cephalic phase on small intestines

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Very small influence;

1) Vagus nerve → G cells in stomach → gastrin → ancinar cells of pancreas → enzyme secretion
2) Vagus nerve → duct cells → bicarb secretion

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11
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GERD

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gastroesophageal reflux disease

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Long-term risks of GERD

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Barrett’s esophagus: potential precursor to esophageal cancer

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Barrett’s esophagus

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causes the metaplasia of cells in the distal esophagus

  • epithelial cells become goblet cells
  • may lead to esophageal cancer due to abnormal behaviour of cells
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14
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GERD is caused by…

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acidic chyme splashing back into the esophagus

  • relaxed lower esophageal sphincter
  • damage cells in lower esophagus
  • become goblet cells to protect themselves
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15
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GERD can happen because…

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  • full stomach
  • lying down
  • breathe in: esophagus passes through thorax and will suck up some chyme (*think: syringe)
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Symptoms of GERD

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  • burning sensation in lower chest that spreads towards neck
  • chronic, reoccurring heart burn
  • worst symptoms after eating, but symptoms are constantly present
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17
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Treatment for GERD

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Drugs: antacid (reduce acid secretion), enhance stomach emptying

Lifestyle: smaller meals, lose weight, eat earlier, stop smoking

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diagnosis for GERD

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use pH monitoring catheter at lower esophagus for 24h

  • normal individuals will have only a few instances where pH < 5 (after meals)
  • GERD: many instances where pH <5, constant low pH during night (lying down)
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Foods that enhances effects of GERD

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  • fatty meal (stops stomach emptying)
  • alcohol & caffeine (more gastrin→HCl secretion)
  • chocolate
  • peppermint
    → increased relaxation of lower esophageal sphincter
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20
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Why does smoking make GERD worse?

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Smoking causes:

  • weakens LES muscle permanently
  • reduce salivation (less protection for esophagus)
  • deep breathing when smoking (suck up chyme)
  • smoker’s cough: pressure on abs push stomach inward (similar to emesis)
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21
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Cephalic phase is a ___ reflex

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long

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22
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Gastric phase is a ___ reflex

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short

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23
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Stimuli for gastric phase

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1) Distension of stomach (mechanoreceptors) → submucosal and myenteric plexuses of ENS
2) elevated pH (chemoreceptors): food entering stomach will make stomach less acidic → activate ENS → peristalsis & secretions
3) partially digested peptides → G cells → gastrin → more HCl and pepsinogen secretion & peristalsis

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Regulation of stomach secretions (process) during gastric phase

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  1. food initiates gastric secretions & activate ENS
  2. ENS → G cells → gastrin → ECL cell & parietal cells → more HCl
  3. acid → chief cells → pepsinogen → pepsin
  4. increased stomach acidity → D cells → somatostatin → stop HCl & pepsinogen secretion (neg feedback: takes 3h)
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25
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If you are vegan, will the gastric phase still stimulate secretions for protein digestion in the stomach? Why?

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Yes;

  • gastric phase builds upon cephalic phase
  • protein still present in stomach (enzymes, cell lining)
  • less secretion will happen, but it will still happen
  • most of enzymes & dead epithelial cells will be recycled
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26
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in the ____, there will be correct enzyme secretion based on what was in the diet because…

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duodenum;

absorption of nutrients allow body to know what is needed

27
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___ enzyme secretion is affected by diet

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pancreatic

28
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symptoms of gastric ulcer

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  • nausea after meals
  • burning sensation in stomach that gets worse a few hours after meal & at night
  • poor appetite
  • weak
29
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Contributions of Dr. Marshall & Dr. Warren to ulcer discovery

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Warren: biopsy of patients with stomach ulcers have bacteria → bac’t shouldn’t be able to exist in stomach

Marshall: took culture of bacteria and experimented on himself → got acute gastritis (precursor to ulcer) with epithelial damage → cured by antiboitics
(ONLY INFLAMMATION, NO ULCER DEVELOPMENT)

30
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Caues of peptic ulcers

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Primary: H. pylori

Secondary: drugs, excess acid, stress ulcers, others

31
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example of a drug that causes ulcers

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NSAIDs: decrease secretion of prostaglandins (responsible for secretion of mucus & bicarb in the stomach)

32
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which disease may cause peptic ulcers?

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  • ZE syndrome

- pseudo ZE syndrom

33
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ZE syndrome vs. pseudo ZE syndrome

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ZE: increased gastrin secretion due to pancreatic tumour

pseudo ZE: increased gastrin secretion due to G cell hyperplasia (enlarged)

34
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What are stress ulcers?

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Ulcers due to cells damaged by hypoxic conditions (after trauma/stress: surgery, burn, etc.)

35
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What is Cushing’s ulcer

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Due to head injuries → increased intercranial pressure → dorsal vasal nuclei → vagus nerve → gastrin secretion

36
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Can you have H. pylori without having an ulcer?

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Yes

37
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areas of the world with high prevalence of H. pylori

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  • South America

- Europe

38
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transmission of H. pylori

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  • oral-oral

- oral-fecal

39
Q

Gastric lymphoma is most common in which type of people?

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older people

40
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Gastric lymphoma = lymphoma of…

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GALT (gut-associated lymphatic tissues)

41
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most people with gastric lymphoma have…

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H. pylori in their stomach

42
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How does H. pylori survive in the stomach?

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Synthesize enzyme “urease” which can create an ura of bicarb around them (prevent effects of HCl)

43
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What does H. pylori do in the stomach? (slide 20)

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  1. use pH sensors to swim to mucus layer
  2. drill through mucus layer to epithelial cells
  3. touch, but not enter epithelial cells
  4. cause filaments to push up & form pedestal for H. pylori
  5. H. pylori on pedestal release proteins that draw in neutrophils
  6. formation of pedestal release interleukins, which attract even more neutrophils → inflammatory response
  7. neutrophils release ROIs (reacted oxygen intermediates) that break down bilayer of epithelial cell from ISF
  8. H. pylori also causes cell to secrete vesicles filled with HCl → break down mucus layer from apical side
  9. Lining is defective & broken down → bleeding into stomach
44
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most peptic ulcers reach ___ layers. Those that reach all 4 layers is called ____.

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mucosal & submucosal;

perforated ulcers

45
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What is a clever way to test for presence of H. pylori?

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Breath test:

  1. Drink urea containing radioactive C-14
  2. H. pylori change C-14 → ammonium + 14-HCO3- (radioactive bicarb)
  3. radioactive bicarb goes to bloodstream
  4. Breath out into a balloon (release 14-CO2 in breath)
  5. put into scintillation fluid that detect radiation
  6. if counts appear on result reading = there is H. pylori
46
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Ways to detect H. pylori

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1) look for antibodies
2) grow from biopsy
3) breath test

47
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What will happen to breath test result if there is no H. pylori?

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Excreted C-14 in urine, unchanged

48
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Ways to get rid of H. pylori

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1) antibiotics

2) increase pH in stomach (allow best environment for antibiotic function)

49
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What can be used to increase pH in stomach?

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1) H/K pump inhibitors
2) H2 antagonists: histamine can’t signal HCl secretion anymore
3) Bismuth: metal

50
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Intestinal phase is activated by…

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chyme / distention in the small intestines

51
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Secretions during the intestinal phase

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  • S cells → secretin
  • I cells → CCK
  • GIP & GLP-1
52
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Effect of CCK

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  • secretion of pancreatic enzymes
  • increase contractilty of gall bladder → more bile
  • stop stomach motilty
53
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effect of secretin

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  • fluid & bicarb secretion

- stop stomach motility

54
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enterogastric reflex is initiated when…

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mechanoreceptors & chemoreceptors sense chyme entering the small intestines

55
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enterogastric reflex

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  • stop peristalsis (stops myenteric plexus)
  • relaxation of stomach
  • contraction of pyloric sphincter
56
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myentric plexus controls…

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motility patterns in the stomach

57
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effect of GIP & GLP-1

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  • insulin secretion

- inhibit stomach motility

58
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There are osmoreceptors in the small intestines that…

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  • identifies solutes in chyme
  • blood borne product
  • feedback to stop stomach motility
59
Q

CFTR channels are present on what cells?

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Cells that secrete mucus

Salivary glands, Tear ducts, Intestinal cells, Lungs

60
Q

Why do people infected with cholera tend to have diarrhea?

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Cholera toxin (CT)

  1. CT goes into cell → cleaved and activated
  2. activate G-proteins → produce way more cAMP and PKA than necessary
  3. (P)-CFTR → cause channel to be stuck open
  4. Cl- mass exit the cell to lumen, which pulls water into lumen (diarreha if in intestines)
  5. (P)-CFTR also blocks NHE, meaning Na can’t enter the bloodstream → less water in bloodstream → dehydration
61
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How to treat severe diarrhea?

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Oral rehydration therapy (ORS) replaces electrolytes lost, give water, buffer against acidosis

  • Na+
  • Glucose (SGLT for water transport)
  • KCl
  • Citrate (more stable, same function as bicarb, buffer against acidosis)
62
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osmolarity of ORS

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311 mmol/L

63
Q

fecal transplant is used to treat…

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older individuals that have recurring C.difficile infection
- Take safe-feces and put into the individual that has recurrent C.difficile infection and replace the bad bacteria with good bacteria