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Digestion and Absorption of Carbohydrate, Protein and Fat Flashcards

1
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What percentage of dietary carbs is starch?

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45-60%

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2
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What is starch composed of?

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  • Amylose
  • Amylopectin
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Amylose structure

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Straight-chain glucose polymer connected by α-1,4 linkages

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Amylopectin structure

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Branched glucose polymer with both α-1,4 + α-1,6 linkages

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5
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How is glycogen similar and different to amylopectin?

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  • S = α-1,4 + α-1,6 linkages
  • D = more highly branched
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6
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What percentage of dietary carbs are disaccharides, and what are the 2?

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  • 30-40%
  • Sucrose + lactose
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What percentage of dietary carbs are monosaccharides, and what are the 2?

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  • 5-10%
  • Fructose + glucose
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8
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What is the only type of carbohydrate the small intestine can absorb?

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Monosaccharides

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9
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2 steps in the process of digestion of carbs

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  • Intraluminal hydrolysis of starch to oligosaccharides
  • Membrane digestion of oligosaccharides to monosaccharides
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10
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Which enzymes are responsible for each step of the digestion of carbs?

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  • Intraluminal hydrolysis = salivary + pancreatic amylases
  • Membrane digestion = brush-border disaccharidases
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11
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What is salivary amylase deactivated by?

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Gastric acid

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12
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What is pancreatic amylase induced by?

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CCK

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13
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How does amylase work, and what is produced?

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  • Cleaves internal α-1,4 linkages of starch (not terminal, α-1,6 or α-1,4 next to α-1,6)
  • Maltose, maltotriose, α-limit dextrins
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14
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3 brush-border disaccharidases

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  • Lactase
  • Maltase
  • Sucrose-isomaltase
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15
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What does lactase digest and what is produced?

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  • Lactose
  • Glucose + galactose
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16
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What linkages do maltase, sucrase and isomaltase cleave?

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Terminal α-1,4 linkages of maltose, maltotriose + α-limit dextrins

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17
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What dose sucrase digest and into what?

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  • Sucrose
  • Glucose + fructose
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18
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What linkages can only isomaltase cleave?

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Branching α-1,6 linkages of α-limit dextrins

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19
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Where is peak oligosaccharide distribution?

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Proximal jejunum

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20
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How are glucose and galactose transported into epithelial cells?

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  • Na+/K+ ATPase establishes Na+ electrochemical gradient
  • Sodium glucose linked transporter 1 (SGLT1) co-transports carbs in with Na+
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21
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How does fructose enter epithelial cells?

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Through GLUT5 transporter

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22
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How are glucose, fructose and galactose effluxed out across the basolateral membrane?

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Through GLUT2

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23
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Why does breath H2 increase in patients with a primary lactase deficiency ingesting lactose?

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  • Non-absorbed lactose is metabolised by colonic bacteria to H2
  • This is absorbed into the blood and secreted by the lungs
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24
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Treatment of a lactase deficiency

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  • Reducing/eliminating milk + milk products from diet
  • Use milk products with commercial lactase preparation
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25
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What percentage of protein comes from diet and endogenous sources?

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  • D = 50%
  • E = 50%
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26
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What are gastric + pancreatic proteases secreted as?

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Proenzymes

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27
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What do gastric chief cells secrete, what is it activated to and by what?

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  • Pepsinogen
  • Pepsin
  • Low intragastric pH
28
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What type of enzymes is pepsin?

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Endopeptidase

29
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5 pancreatic proteases

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  • Trypsin
  • Chymotrypsin
  • Elastase
  • Carboxypeptidase A
  • Carboxypeptidase B
30
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2 types of pancreatic proteolytic enzyme

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  • Exopeptidase
  • Endopeptidase
31
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What do endopeptidases have an affinity for, and what do they produce?

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  • Peptide bonds adjacent to specific AAs
  • Oligopeptides with 2-6 AAs
32
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What do exopeptidases have an affinity for, and what do they produce?

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  • Peptide bonds adjacent to c-terminus
  • Individual AAs
33
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How are large and small oligopeptides digested?

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  • Large = brush-border peptidases
  • Small = cytoplasmic peptidases
34
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Where is most of the body’s fat depost?

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Subcutaneous adipose tissue layers

35
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Where can fat also be found in obese/older people?

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  • Muscle
  • Visceral deposits
36
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Fat-soluble vitamins

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A, D, E, K

37
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What do fat-soluble vitamins depend on for intestinal absorption?

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Solubilisation within bile salt micelles

38
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What does vitamin A deficiency cause?

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  • Night blindness
  • Corneal drying
  • Corneal degeneration + blindness
  • Impaired immunity
  • Hypokeratosis
  • Keratosis pilaris
39
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What causes vitamin D deficiency?

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  • Inadequate intake
  • Inadequate sunlight exposure
40
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What does vitamin D deficiency cause?

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  • Impaired bone mineralisation
  • Rickets (children)
  • Osteomalacia (adults)
  • Osteoporosis
  • Cancer
41
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Role of vitamin E

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Antioxidant role in protection against cardiovascular disease + cancer

42
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What does vitamin E deficiency cause?

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Neurological problems (poor nerve conduction)

43
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How is vitamin K obtained?

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  • Diet
  • Produced by intestinal bacteria
44
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What is vitamin K involved in?

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  • Carboxylation of specific glutamate residues in proteins
  • Forms Gla-residues
45
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Key roles of Gla-proteins

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  • Blood coagulation
  • Bone metabolism
  • Vascular biology
46
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What are fatty acids important in?

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  • Formation of healthy cell membranes
  • Development + functioning of brain + nervous system
  • Production of eicosanoids
  • Regulating BP, blood viscosity, vasoconstriction, immune + inflammatory response
47
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Percentages of types of dietary fats

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  • Triglyceride = 90%
  • Phospholipids = 5%
  • <5% = cholesterol + lipovitamins
48
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What does emulsification take place by?

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  • Food preparation (eg. blending)
  • Chewing + gastric churning
  • Squirting of gastric content into duodenum
  • Intestinal peristalsis
49
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What prevents lipid particles coalescing?

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  • Emulsion droplets coated with membrane lipids, denatured protein, dietary polysaccharides, products of digestion, biliary phospholipids + cholesterol
  • Polar groups of phospholipids project into water
50
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What is the core of an emulsion particle composed of?

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  • Triglyceride
  • Cholesteryl esters
  • Non-polar lipids
51
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What is lipid digestion in the mouth mediated by?

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Lingual lipase

52
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What enzymes digest lipids in the stomach?

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  • Lingual lipase
  • Gastric lipase
53
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How is gastric lipase secreted and where from?

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  • Response to gastrin/ACh
  • Chief cells
54
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What do lingual and gastric lipases produce?

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  • Single fatty acid
  • Diglyceride
55
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Why are long chain fatty acids released in the stomach not absorbed there, and where do they remain?

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  • Insoluble at acidic pH
  • In the core of the triglyceride droplet
56
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Where are medium- and short-chain fatty acids absorbed, why, and where into?

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  • In the stomach
  • Ionised at gastric pH
  • Into gastric mucosa –> portal blood
57
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How do patients with pancreatic insufficiency partly alleviate fat malabsorption?

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  • Lingual + gastric lipase continues in duodenum
  • pH remains low as bile not neutralising
58
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What do fatty acids trigger the release of in the duodenum, and from where?

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  • CCK
  • I-cells in duodenal mucosa
59
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What does CCK stimulate?

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  • Flow of bile into duodenum by gallbladder contraction + relaxation of sphincter of Oddi
  • Secretion of pancreatic enzymes
60
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What does pancreatic co-lipase do?

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Act as anchor for binding of lipase by forming co-lipase-pancreatic lipase complex

61
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Products of pancreatic lipase

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  • Fatty acids
  • 2-monoacylglyceride
62
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Mechanics of lipid absorption

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  • Surface triglycerides of emulsion droplet hydrolysed + replaced by more from core –> size decreasing
  • Leads to budding off of main droplet to form multi-lamellar vesicle
  • Addition of more bile slats to vesicles thins out lipid coating –> uni-lamellar vesicle
  • These converted into mixed micelles containing bile salts + mixed lipids
63
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Barriers for lipolytic products to overcome to enter enterocytes

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  • Mucous gel layer
  • Unstirred water layer
  • Apical membrane
64
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Movement of short-/medium-chain vs long-chain fatty acids into enterocytes

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  • S/M = readily soluble in water, diffuse easily through water layer into cell
  • L = solubility decreases, but partitioning into micelles increases –> fatty acids protonated by low pH generated by Na+/H+ exchange at cell –> leave micelle and enter cell
65
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What is the enterohepatic circulation?

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  • Bile salts enter terminal ileum + colon after lipids absorbed
  • Redirected to liver in portal blood
66
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What happens to lipolytic products once in the enterocyte?

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  • Triglycerides re-formed in SER
  • Fat droplets formed in SER from triglycerides
  • Apoproteins formed in RER + transferred to SER to be combined with fat droplets
  • Lipid droplets enter chylomicrons and travel in vesicles
  • Vesicles fuse with basolateral membrane –> chylomicron enters lymph
67
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What happens to exported chylomicrons?

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  • Encounter lipoprotein lipase at cells –> triglycerides hydrolysed to FAs + glycerol
  • FA + glycerol –> muscle + adipose
  • Remnant chylomicrons –> liver

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