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Digestive system Flashcards

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what is the Digestive tract also called?

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alimentary tract or canal

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what are some of the parts of the Digestive tract and accessory organs?

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◦ Tube from oral cavity to
anus
◦ GI tract: refers to
stomach and intestines

 Accessory organs
◦ Primarily glands, secrete fluids into tract

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what are the functions of the digestive tract? part 1

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  1. Ingestion: introduction of food into stomach
  2. Mastication: chewing
    ◦ Increases surface area
  3. Propulsion
    ◦ Deglutition: swallowing
    ◦ Peristalsis: moves material through digestive tract
  4. Mixing – contractions to increases contact with enzymes
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what are the functions of the digestive tract? part 2

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  1. Secretion: lubricate, liquify, digest
    ◦ Mucus: secreted along entire digestive tract, lubricates food and lining, protects from mechanical digestion, acid and digestive enzymes
    ◦ Water: makes food easier to digest and absorb
    ◦ Bile: emulsifies fats
    ◦ Enzymes: chemical digestion
  2. Digestion: Mechanical and chemical
  3. Absorption: Movement from tract into circulation or lymph
  4. Elimination: Waste products removed from body;
    Defecation
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what is the Histology of the digestive tract-Mucosa?

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Mucosa. Innermost layer, consisting of:

  1. Mucous epithelium
  2. Lamina propria: loose C.T.
  3. Muscularis mucosae: smooth muscle.

• Mucosa extends into lamina propria in places to
form intestinal glands or crypts.

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what is the Histology of the digestive tract-Submucosa?

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Thick C.T. layer with nerves,

blood vessels, small glands. Parasympathetic submucosal plexus.

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what is the Histology of the digestive tract-Muscularis?

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2 or 3 layers of smooth muscle, including circular and longitudinal layers.

Muscularis contains the myenteric plexus between circular and longitudinal layers. Plexus controls movements along GI tract.

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what is the Histology of the digestive tract-Serosa or adventitia?

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Connective tissue.

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regulation of the Digestive system-Nervous system?

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• Local: enteric nervous system
◦ Coordinates peristalsis and
regulates local reflexes

• General: coordination with the CNS.
◦ May initiate reflexes because of sight, smell, or taste of food.
◦ Primarily parasympathetic

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regulation of the Digestive system-Chemical system?

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• Production of hormones
– Gastrin, secretin

• Production of paracrine
chemicals like histamine

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Saliva and its function

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• Compound alveolar salivary glands produce saliva

◦ Prevents bacterial infection
◦ Lubrication
◦ Contains salivary amylase that breaks down
◦ Helps to form bolus for swallowing
◦ Parasympathetic input causes salivary production

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stomach and its openings

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◦ Gastroesophageal: from oesophagus

◦ Pyloric: to duodenum

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what is the first stage of the Cephalic phase?

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The taste, smell, or thought of food or tactile sensations of food in the mouth stimulates oblongata

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what is the second stage of the Cephalic phase?

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Vagus nerves carry parasympathetic action potentials to the stomach, where enteric plexus neurons are activated.

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what is the third stage of the Cephalic phase?

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Postganglionic neurons stimulate secretion by parietal and chief cells and stimulate gastrin and histamine secretion by endocrine cells

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what is the fourth stage of the Cephalic phase?

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Gastrin is carried through the circulation back to the stomach, where, along with histamine, it stimulates secretion

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what is the first stage of the Gastric phase?

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Distention of the stomach stimulates mechanoreceptors and activates a parasympathetic reflex. Action potentials generated by the mechanoreceptors are carried by the vagus nerves to the medulla oblongata

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what is the second stage of the Gastric phase?

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The medulla oblongata increases action potentials in the vagus nerves that stimulate secretions by parietal and chief cells and stimulate gastrin and histamine secretion by endocrine cells

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what is the third stage of the Gastric phase?

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Distention of the stomach also activates local reflexes that increase stomach secretions

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what is the fourth stage of the Gastric phase?

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Gastrin is carried through the circulation back to the stomach, where, along with histamine, it stimulates secretion.

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what is the first stage of the Intestinal phase?

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Chyme in the duodenum with a pH less than 2 or containing fat digestion products 9 lipids) inhibits gastric secretion by three mechanisms (2-4)

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what is the second stage of the Intestinal phase?

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chemoreceptors in the duodenum are stimulated by H+ (low pH) or lipids. Action potentials generated by the chemoreceptors are carried by the vagus nerves to the medulla oblongata, where the inhibit parasympathetic action potentials, thereby decreasing gastric secretion

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what is the third stage of the Intestinal phase?

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local reflexes activated by H+ or lipids also inhibit gastric secretion

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what is the fourth stage of the Intestinal phase?

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secretin and cholecystokinin produced by the duodenum decrease gastric secretions in the stomach.

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small intestine characteristics and divisions

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• Site of greatest amount of
digestion and absorption
of nutrients and water

• Divisions:
◦ Duodenum- first 25 cm
◦ Jejunum- 2.5 m
◦ Ileum- 3.5 m

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Small intestine-Duodenum

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• Curves to the left; head

of pancreas in the curve

27
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what are the modifications to increase surface area of the small intestine?

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• Increase surface
area 600 fold:
̶ Plicae circulares
̶ Villi
̶ Microvilli
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small-intestine-Jejunum and Ileum

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• Similar in structure to the duodenum

  • Gradual decrease in:
  • Diameter
  • Thickness of intestinal walls
  • Number of circular folds
  • Number of villi

• Duodenum and Jejunum are the major site of nutrient
absorption

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what is the first stage of the Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas and Ducts?

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The hepatic ducts, which carry bile from the liver lobes, combine to form the common hepatic duct.

30
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what is the second stage of the Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas and Ducts?

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The common hepatic duct combines with the cystic duct from the gallbladder to form the common bile duct.

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what is the third stage of the Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas and Ducts?

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The common bile duct and the pancreatic duct combine to form the hepatopancreatic ampulla

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what is the fourth stage of the Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas and Ducts?

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The hepatopancreatic ampulla empties bile and pancreatic secretions into the duodenum at the major duodenal papilla

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what is the fifth stage of the Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas and Ducts?

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The accessory pancreatic duct empties pancreatic secretions into the duodenum at the minor duodenal papilla

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what are the functions of the liver? part 1

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• Bile production: 600-1000 mL/day. Bile salts,
cholesterol, fats, fat-soluble hormones, lecithin

◦ Neutralizes and dilutes stomach acid

◦ Bile salts emulsify fats. Most are reabsorbed in the ileum.

◦ Secretin (from the duodenum) stimulates bile secretions, increasing water and bicarbonate ion content of the bile

• Storage
◦ Glycogen, fat, vitamins, copper and iron. Hepatic portal blood comes to liver from small intestine.

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what are the functions of the liver? part 2

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• Nutrient interconversion

• Detoxification
◦ Hepatocytes remove ammonia and convert to urea

• Phagocytosis

• Synthesis
◦ Albumins, fibrinogen, globulins, heparin, clotting factors

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Pancreas-Endocrine and Exocrine

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  • Pancreas both endocrine and exocrine
  • Endocrine: pancreatic islets. Produce insulin, glucose, and somatostatin
  • Exocrine: grape-like clusters form lobules separated by septa.
37
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Large intestine characteristics and what does it consist of?

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• Consists of cecum, colon, rectum, anal canal

• Movements sluggish (18-24 hrs); chyme
converted to faeces.

• 90% of volume of chyme is reabsorbed in the
large intestine

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Anatomy of the large intestine?

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 Cecum
◦ Blind sac, appendix attached.

 Colon
◦ Ascending - transverse
◦ Descending - sigmoid

 Rectum
◦ Straight muscular tube,
thick muscular tunic

 Anal canal
◦ Internal anal sphincter (smooth muscle)
◦ External anal sphincter (skeletal muscle)

39
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Digestion and absorption- Digestion function

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• Digestion
◦ Breakdown of food molecules for absorption into circulation

• Mechanical: breaks large food particles to small

• Chemical: breaking of covalent bonds by digestive
enzymes

40
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Digestion and absorption- absorption and transport function

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• Absorption and transport
◦ Molecules are moved out of digestive tract and into
circulation for distribution throughout body

41
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what is the movement of Carbohydrates through the digestive system?

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Mouth: salivary amylase= polysaccharides

Stomach: same

Duodenum: Pancreatic amylase= Disaccharides

Epithelium of small intestine: Disaccharidses= monosaccharides

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what is the movement of Lipids through the digestive system?

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Mouth: Lingual lipase

Stomach: Gastric lipase

Duodenum: Bile salts+ Pancreatic lipase

Epithelium of small intestine: fatty acids, monoglycerides

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what is the movement of Proteins through the digestive system?

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Mouth: nothing

Stomach: Pepsin= polypeptides

Duodenum: Trypsin, chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase= peptides

Epithelium of small intestine: peptidases=amino acids, dipeptides, tripeptides

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Water and ions- water

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• Water: can move in
either direction across wall of small intestine depending
on osmotic gradients

45
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Water and ions-ions

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• Ions: sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphate are actively transported

46
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movement of water in the digestive system?

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mouth: Ingestion (2 L), salivation gland secretions (1 L)
stomach: gastric secretions (2 L)

Duodenum: Bile (0.7 L), Pancreatic secretions (1.2 L)

Epithelium of small intestine: small intestine secretions (2 L) 92% absorbed in the small intestine, 6%-7% absorbed in the large intestine

(water in feces=ingested+ secreted- absorbed)

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