Digestive Glands Flashcards
Components of digestive glands
- large salivary glands
- pancreas
- liver
- gall bladder
Function: salivary gland
Produce saliva
Function: pancreas
Produce digestive enzymes and hormones
Function: liver
Produce bile, metabolism, synthesize blood proteins, etc.
Function: gall bladder
Store and concentrate bile
Two parts of the exocrine glands
- Secretory part
- Duct system
Compound glands have
Branching ducts
Compound tubuloacinar glands that exist in three large pairs
Salivary glands
Three major types of salivary glands
- Parotid glands
- Submandibular glands
- Sublingual glands
Two types of secretory cells in salivary glands
- Serous
- Mucous
Function: serous cell
- Protein secreting cell (enzyme)
- secretion is washiness
- serous cells form serous acini
Function: mucous cell
- secrete mucoproteins
- secretion is viscid
- mucous cells form the mucous acini
Composed of both serous and mucous cells, mainly mucous acinus with a serous demilune
Mixed acinus
- Found within the basal lamina of secretory acini and intercalated ducts.
- Stellate or spindle in shape
- function:
1. Contraction: helping to squeeze out secretion
2. Prevention
Myoepithelial cell
Ducts involved in the duct system of salivary glands
- Intercalated duct
- Striated duct
- Interlobular duct
- Major secretory duct
Epithelium in the salivary glands duct system
- Simple cuboidal epithelium
- Flat
LM: nucleus is near the cell apex; cytoplasm is acidophilic
EM: basal striations formed by membrane infolding and mitochondria
Function: transport water and ions; reabsorbing sodium and excreting potassium
Striated duct (secretory duct)
Branched acinar gland made entirely of serous acini with longer intercalated duct and striated duct to secrete products mainly containing salivary amylase
Parotid gland
Branched tubuloacinar gland that has a mixed component (mixed gland) with more serous acini and less mixed or mucous acini
Submandibular gland
Branched tubuloacinar gland with mainly mucous acini that exist without intercalated duct
Sublingual gland
Elongated organ having a head, body and tail with a capsule and septa of connective tissues; parenchyma organ with lobules
Pancreas
Pancreas divided into two portions
- Endocrine portion
- Exocrine portion
Exocrine portion of pancreas
Contains entirely serous acini
- serous cells have basophilic basal cytoplasm
- rich in RER
- golgi complex
- zymogen granules in apical cytoplasm
Difference with pancreas and salivary glands
- no myoepithelial cells
- centroacinar cells are small, pale stained cells in the lumen of acini which are from cells of the intercalated ducts
Intralobular duct of the pancreatic gland is comprised of
Cuboidal
Interlobular duct of the pancreatic gland is comprised of
Columnar
Main pancreatic duct of the pancreatic gland is comprised of
High columnar with goblet cells
Function: exocrine portion of pancreatic gland
- Secrete pancreatic juice
When proenzymes are abnormally activated and digest the whole pancreas leading to very serious complications (not a bacterial infection; related more to alcoholism, gallstones, metabolic factors, infection, drugs)
Acute pancreatitis
Endocrine portion of the pancreas is called
Islet of Langerhans