Digestive Study Guide Flashcards
What digestive enzyme is found in saliva?
- Salivary glands secretion will help bind materials
- Secretes SALIVARY AMYLASE to dissolve starches
Outline the path of food through the digestive tract
Oral Cavity
Pharynx
Esophagus
Stomach
Small Intestine
Large Intestine
Anus
Oral cavity
mastication and breakdown of food by salivary enzymes
Esophagus
related to gastric reflux and heart burn
Stomach
3 muscle layers for contraction that churns and mixes food to alter the materials
What cell types are found in the gastric pits?
Surface Mucous cell
Mucous neck cell
Parietal Cell
Chief Cell
G cell
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Surface Mucous Cell
- secretes alkaline fluid containing mucin
- Mucin becomes hydrated, producing mucus layer.
- This mucus layer along with a high rate of cell turnover in the mucosa helps prevent ulceration of the stomach lining upon exposure to both the high acidity of the gastric fluid and gastric enzymes
Mucous Neck Cell
- secretes acidic fluid containing mucin
- the acidic mucin helps maintain the acidic conditions resulting from the secretion of hydrochlorid acid by parietal cells. Also helps protect the stomach from injury
Parietal Cell
Secretes:
- Intrinsic Factor-required for absorption of vitamin B12
- HCL-it forms the H+ and Cl- secreted across the parietal cells surface. Responsible for Low pH of stomach
HCL in stomach
- converts the inactive enzyme pepsinogen into active pepsin and provides the optimal pH environment for pepsin activity
- it kills most microorganisms that enter the stomach (most cannot survive in the extremely low pH)
- It contributes to the breakdown of plant cell wall and animal connective tissue
- it denatures proteins by causing them to unfold, thus facilitating the chemical digestion by enzymes
Chief Cells
Secretes:
- Pepsinogen-inactive form of pepsin. Must be inactive to prevent destruction of the chief cell proteins
- Gastric lipase- role in fat digestion
G- cell
- enteroendocrine cells that secrete gastrin into the blood.
- gastrine stimulates stomach secretions and motility
Liver
-produce and release bile into the duodenum``
Bile
contains largely water, bicarb ions, bile salts, and lecithin
- helps mechanically digest lipids by emulsifying it.
- makes it into tiny droplets
Gall Bladder
- attached to inferior surface of the liver
- stores, concentrates, and releases bile into duodenum
- sphincter valve controls flow of bile into and out of the gallbladder
Pancreas houses which cells
- Duct Cell
- Acinar Cell