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what anchors mucosal secretion to the intestinal microvilli?

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glycocalyx

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what are the diffusion barriers to absorption? (4)

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  • unstirred water layer (UWL)
  • luminal (apical) cell membrane
  • basal cell membrane
  • ECF
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what pump accounts for 33% of the total resting cell energy budget of the GI tract?

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Na-K ATPase

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how is secondary active transport typically done?

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couple movement of Na with a sugar or amino acid

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example of uniport, symport, and antiport?

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uniport: Ca-ATPase
symport: Na-glucose, Na-amino acid
antiport: Na-K ATPase, H-K ATPase

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pepsin:
- what secretes it
- what activates it
- action

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  • from stomach
  • activated by low pH
  • acts on aromatic aa’s and some others
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trypsinogen:
- what secretes it
- what activates it
- action

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  • from pancreas
  • activated by mucosal enteropeptidase (enterokinase)
  • cleaves peptide bonds nest to characteristic aa’s
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procarboxypeptidase:
- what secretes it
- what activates it
- action

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  • from pancreas
  • activated by trypsin
  • cleaves C-terminal aa’s
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what types of nutrients are absorbed via secondary active symport?

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  • free aa’s
  • dipeptides
  • tripeptides
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what nutrients are absorbed via facilitated diffusion?

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  • Glu

- Asp

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how do nutrients get through the basal membrane and into the blood/lymph?

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basal membrane -> facilitated diffusion -> then simple diffusion to blood/lymph

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describe the breakdown of total digested protein in small intestine in terms of where it is from

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50% - food
25% digestive juices
25% sloughed mucosal cells

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how much total protein escapes digestion and absorption?

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2-5%

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principal carb sources

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  • polysaccharides (starches)
  • disaccharides (sucrose, lactose)
  • monosaccharides (glucose, fructose)
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animal starch vs. plant starches

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  • glycogen (animal): 1,4a-linkages, 1,6a-branches
  • amylopectin (plant): similar but less 1,6a-branches
  • amylose (plant): only 1,4a-linkages
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action of salivary and pancreatic alpha-amylases

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action of salivary and pancreatic alpha-amylases

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  • attack straight chain 1,4a-linkages

- spare 1,6a-links, terminal 1,4a-links, and 1,4a-links next to branch points

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products of salivary and pancreatic alpha-amylases

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  • maltose (disaccharide)
  • maltotriose (trisaccharide)
  • a-limit dextrins
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where does the final digestion of carbs occur?

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ileum via membrane-bound oligosaccharidases in microvilli

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what causes lactose intolerance?

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deficiency of lactase and/or sucrase -> retain disaccharides -> retain water -> diarrhea, bloating, gas

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describe levels of lactase throughout lifetime

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highest in infants, declines during childhood and adulthood

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what are the principal absorbed monosaccharides and how is each absorbed through apical then basal membrane?

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  • glucose (Na-dependent symport ->facilitated diffusion)
  • galactose (Na-dependent symport ->facilitated diffusion)
  • fructose (facilitated diffusion -> facilitated diffusion)
23
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what are non-digestible carb components of food?

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  • cellulose
  • pectins
  • lignins
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impact of non-digestible carb components of food

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add bulk, retain water -> enhance stood transit time by distention related events (natural laxative)

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what emulsifies lipids and where?
small intestine - bile salts (glycocholate), lecithin, monoglycerides
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what is the major lipid digestive enzyme?
pancreatic lipase - hydrolyzes fatty acid ester linkages
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what is required for lipase to function?
colipase - binds TG surface, displacing emulsifier molecule and anchoring lipase
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what is required for lipase to function?
colipase - binds TG surface, displacing emulsifier molecule and anchoring lipase
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describe structure of micelles
- outer layer of emulsifier | - inner layer of cholesterol, lysolecithin, MG, fa's
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describe intracellular fate of absorbed lipids of different sizes
directly pass to portal blood | >10-12 C -> re-esterified
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how much fat is normally in stool?
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how much cholesterol is absorbed from lumen and why?
almost insoluble in water -> only 50% absorbed
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describe formation of chylomicrons and how they help absorption of fat
glycophospholipids + free TGs -> Golgi -> lipid droplets -> add lipoproteins, phospholipids -> chylomicron -> secretory vesicle into extracellular space -> lymph -> thoracic duct -> circulation
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describe absorption of water-soluble vitamins
- B's, niacin, folate, ascorbate | - diffusion, cotransport, and active transport
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which water-soluble vitamin has different absorption?
B12 - needs intrinsic factor, absorbed in ileum
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describe absorption of fat-soluble vitamins
- A,D,E,K | - like water-soluble but in proximal small intestine primarily
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how much of Na entering each portion of gut is absorbed?
duodenum and jejunum - 55% ileum - 25% large intestine - 20%
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describe Na absorption in jejunum
-passively absorbed at tight junctions and lateral spaces in response to osmotic forces
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describe Na absorption in ileum
- mainly electrogenic - diffusion down gradient via specific membrane protein channels - also some by neutral Na/Cl exchange - indirectly dependent on Na/K ATPase
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describe Na absorption in colon
purely electrogenic
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describe Na absorption in colon
purely electrogenic
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how much of the Ca ingested is absorbed and where?
50% - mostly in upper small intestine
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describe Ca absorption
needs Ca-binding protein (upregulated by vit D), then basal Ca ATPase (2 Ca: 1 ATP)
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how is iron transported in blood?
bound to transferrin
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how is iron stored?
complexed with ferritin
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describe iron absorption
- as free iron: combines w/ DMT-1 in duodenum | - as iron heme complex: directly into intestinal mucosal cells
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what iron carrier releases iron to the plasma?
ferroportin
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what regulates iron uptake into mucosal cells?
intracellular [ferritin]
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where does water absorption primarily occur?
lower small intestine and large intestine - net water movement occurs in small intestine until osmolality of lumen equals that of cytoplasm-interstitium-plasma
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describe water absorption in colon
solely follows electrogneic movement of Na - largely through tight junctions between epithelial cells

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