Digestion Flashcards
What are squamous cells
They are like scales
What is pseudostratified
It looks like more than one layer but it’s only one
What is digested in the mouth
Saliva contains salivary amylase to digest starch an lipase to digest fats
Is esophagus voluntary or involuntary
Top is voluntary which is why you can swallow but peristaltic action after is involuntary
Name the three gastric glands
- Mucous
- Chief cells
- Parietal cells
Chief cells secrete
Pepsinogen for proteins
Parietal cells secrete
HCl
Pyloric glands secrete
Gastronomic which induces more HCl and stomach mixing
Most digestion occurs in the
Duodenum
Pancreatic juice contains
Bicarbonate solution, pancreatic amylase, pancreatic peptidases (trypsinogen, chymotrypsinogen, and elastinogen), enterokinases activate trypsinogen to trypsin which activates all other, lipase
What is digested in the small intestine
Everything
What does enterokinase do
Activates trypsinogen to trypsin which activates all other enzymes
Where is bile produced and stored
Produced in the liver and stored in the pancreas
What causes bile to be released
CCK
pH of bile is
8.5