Digestive Flashcards

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Ptyalin (salavary amylase)

Mouth

A

Starts breakdown of starch

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Sublingual lipase

Mouth

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Starts breakdown of fat

More prevalent in infants

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Gastric glands

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Give rise to parietal cells ( oxyntic cells) chief cells (peptic cells)

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4
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Chief/peptic cells

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Produce pepsinogen

Later converted to pepsin by hcl

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5
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Parietal/oxyntic cells

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HCL which converts pepsinogen to pepsin

Intrinsic factor for B12 absorption in terminal ileum

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6
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Mucous neck cells aka cardiac gastric cells

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Make mucous

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7
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Pyloric glands

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Give rise to gastric cells which produce gastrin( increase gastric secretions & motlity) and mucous

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8
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Brunner’s glands

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Mucous secreting glands in duodenum
Bicarbonate rich alkaline
Buffers chyme

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9
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Secretin

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Bicarbonate-buffers acid chyme from stomach

Water- cause release of pancreatic enzymes

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10
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Lactase

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Lactose into glucose and galactose

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11
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Sucrase

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Sucrose into glucose and fructose

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12
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Maltase

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Maltose into glucose and glucose

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