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Digestive System II Flashcards

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What are the 4 layers of the esophagus and GI tract?

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  1. Mucosal Surface - faces lumen
  2. Submucosa
  3. Mascularies Externa - no less than 2 layers of musculature, usually smooth muscle
  4. Serosa/Advensitia - serosa free, adventitia - anchors to other structures
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What tissue type is the adventitia made of?

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DCT

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What tissue type is the mucosa made of? What does it contain?

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Epithelium
Lamina Propria
Muscularis Mucosae

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What is tissue type is the submucosa made of? In some locations they may contain what two accessories?

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DCT

In some locations may contain glands or lymphatic nodule

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What two layers compose the Muscularies externa?

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Inner circular layer

Outer longitudinal layer

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What does the muscularis externa do?

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Allows for peristalsis

Pushes the food down the GI tract

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What tissue type is in the serosa? What is its function?

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Mesothelial lining (simple squamous epithelium)
Created slick surface
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What are the three layers of the mucosa?

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  1. Epithelial Lining
  2. Lamina Propria
  3. Muscularis mucosae
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What are contianed in the lamina propria?

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Glands

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What is contained in the submucosa?

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Submucosal nerve plexus / Meissner’s Nerve Plexus

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What two locations contain a submucosa?

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  1. Esophagus

2. Duodenum

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What is contianed int he muscularis externa?

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Myenteric Nerve Plexus

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What are the purposes of the two layers in the muscularis externa?

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Inner Layer - circular: compress digestive materials

Outer Layer - longitudinal: corkscrew movement to push digestive materials along

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What is the function of the esophagus?

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Delivers food from pharynx to stomach

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What is an identifying feature of the esophagus? What is its purpose?

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The shape of the lumen, without food it collapses

Allows it to expand and contract as needed

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Is there little or high amounts of regeneration of the epithelium of the esophogus?

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There is constant regeneration of the epithelium

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Is the muscularis mucosae thin or thick in the esophogus? What does this aid in?

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The longitudinal smooth muscle in the proximal esophagus is thick
Aids in swallowing

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What does the submucosa of the esophogus contain?

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Submucosal (Meissner’s) plexus

Esophageal glands proper

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How does the musculares externa of the esophagus change as you move down it?

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Proximal 1/3 is skeletal muscle
Middle 1/3 is a combination of skeletal and smooth
Lower 1/3 is smooth muscle

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Does the esophagus have adventitia or serosa?

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Converts from adventitia to serosa upon entering the abdominal cavity

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What do you see at the esophagus-stomach junction?

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Transitions from stratified squamous to simple columnar
See the presence of pits
Thickening of musculature

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What is the function of sphincters in the esophagus-stomach junction?

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Control movement from one region to the next

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Does the stomach perform endocrine or exocrine functions?

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Mixed exocrine-endocrine organ

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How does the stomach act as an endocrine system?

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Releases digestive enzymes

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How does the stomach act as an exocrine system?

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DNES (diffuse neuroendocrine system): enteroendocrine
Release of ghrelin signals hunger
Release of gastric amylase, pepsinogen from chyme

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What are the 4 parts of digestion?

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  1. Carbohydrates
  2. Proteins
  3. Triglycerides
  4. Forms Chyme
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What are the 4 anatomical regions of the stomach?

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  1. Cardia: small, runs continuously
  2. Fundus: below cardia
  3. Body: bulk
  4. Pylorus: right before duodenum
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Does the body of the stomach exist according to histologists?

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No, the body and the fundus are made of the same tissue

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What are rugae? Where are they located? What is their function?

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Rugae are places where the submucosa juts upwards creating permanent longitudinal folds
Found in the stomach
Allows the stomach to expand with eating

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When are Rugae most promienet?

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When the stomach is empty

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Where is the cardiac region of the stomach?

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Narrow circular band surrounding the esophageal orifice

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What is the function of the cardiac glands? Where are they found? Are there many pariental cells?

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Found in the cardiac region of the stomach
Produce mucus and lysozyme
Few parietal cells

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What is the function of gastric pits? What type of cells are they lined with? Where are they located?

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Gastric pits are filled with musin and make insoluble mucus that goes over the entire surface of the stomach so it doesn’t get eaten away
Lined with surface mucous cell - give it a clear appearance
Begin at esophagogastric junction

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What is the location of gastric (fundic) glands?

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Fundus Stomach (bulk)

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What are the three portions of the gastric (fundic) glands?

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  1. Isthmus
  2. Neck
  3. Fundus
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What type of cells are found in the isthmus region of gastric (fundic) glands?

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Stem cells

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What type of cells are found in the neck region of gastric (fundic) glands? (2)

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Parietal Cells

Mucous Neck Cells

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What type of cells are found in the fundus region of gastric (fundic) glands? (2)

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Chief Cells

Enteroendocrine cells

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What is the function of the mucous neck cells in the neck region of gastric (fundic) glands?

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Make soluble mucus to solubilize chyme

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What is the function of the parietal cells int he neck segments of the gastric (fundic glands)? What do they look like?

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Make HCl and Intrinsic Factor

Big, pink, rounded or pyramidal in shape

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41
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What cells type is the most numerous in upper and middle neck regions of gastric (fundic) glands?

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Parietal Cells

42
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What happens when tubulovesicles decrease?

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Microvilli increase in an actively-secreting cells

43
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What does intrinsic factor fo?

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Captures vitamin B12 and protects it until it can be absorbed in the ileum of the small intestine

44
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Where are chief cells located? What do they look like?

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Located in deeper part of gastric (fundic) glands, granular appearance
Basophilic cytoplasm with eosinophilic apices

45
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What do chief cells secrete? What does it do?

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Secrete pepsinogen > enters into acidic environment and becomes activated
Secrete lipase > breaks down lipids

46
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Where are enteroendocrine cells located? What do they look like?

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Enriched in fundus of gastric (fundus) glands
Clear cytoplasm
Closed = attached to basal domian but doesn’t extend to apocrine
Open = attached to basal domain, extends to apocrine, has microvilli

47
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What is the function of enteroendocrine cells?

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Closed - respond to neuronal stimulation
Open - Samples what is in the stomach (taste receptors), released gastrin (+ other hormones), responds to the immediate environment

48
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What does the pylorus section of the stomach contain? (2)

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Deep gastric pits

Pyloric glands

49
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What do pyloric glands look like?

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Longer pits with short coiled secretory part near muscularis mucosae
Glands curve
clear appearance because of surface mucosal cells

50
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What is the function of pyloric glands? Are they abundant?

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Secrete mucus and lysozymes

Is not as abundant as other pits

51
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What 3 functions does the small intestine perform?

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  1. Terminal Food Digestion
  2. Nutrient Absorption
  3. Endocrine Secretion
52
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What are the 3 regions of the small intestine?

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  1. Duodenum
  2. Jejunum
  3. Ileum
53
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In what region of the small intestine does terminal food digestion mainly occur?

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Duodenum

54
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Why is the small intestine lines with tall columnar cells with microvilli?

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Increased absorption and secretion

55
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What is the plicae circularis? Where are they located? What is their function?

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Folds in the small intestine
Analogous to the rugae in the stomach
Increase SA > increased absorption and secretion

56
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What does the mucosa of the small intestine contain?

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Epithelieum
Lamina Propria that extended into villi
Muscularis Mucosae

57
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What does the submucosa of the small intestine contain? (2)

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  1. Duodenal Glands / Brunner’s Glands

2. Peyer’s Patches (aka M cells)

58
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What do duodenal/brunner’s glands of the small intestine produce? What is its function?

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Make alkaline mucus that neutralizes the chyme from the stomach

59
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What section of the small intestine has peyer’s patches?

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The ilium

60
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Does the small intestine have a serosa or adventitia?

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Serosa

61
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Absorption in the submucosa and mucosa is increased by what 3 structures?

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  1. Plicae Ciculares - submucosa juts inward to create folds
  2. Villi - epithelium pushes out
  3. Microvilli - on all cells
62
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In what 2 sections of the small intestine are plicae circulares folds most numerous?

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  1. Distal duodenum

2. Proximal jejunum

63
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What is the core of the villi in the small intestine? How do they differ in appearance in the ileum and duodenum?

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Core of lamina propria
Leaf-like in the ileum
finger-like in the duodenum

64
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How does the number of goblet cells change from the small intestine to the colon and rectum?

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Increase the number of goblet cells as you move from the small intestine to the colon and rectum

65
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Why do villi of the small intestine have an empty center?

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Filled with lacteal which binds lymphatic vessel and catches lipids?

66
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Where are the intestinal glands (Crypts of Lieberkuhn) located?

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Extend from the muscularis mucosae to the luminal surface of the villi and are surrounded by lamina propria

67
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What are the 5 accessory cells found in the mucosa of the small intestine?

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  1. Enterocytes
  2. Goblet
  3. Paneth
  4. Enteroendocrine
  5. M cells
68
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What is the function of enterocytes? What tissue type are they?

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Simple columnar epithelial cell
Absorption
Secretion of digestive enzymes

69
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What is the function of goblet cells? Where are they located?

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Secrete mucin

Increase as you move toward the ileum

70
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What is the function of paneth cells? What doe they look like?

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Release antimicrobial peptides for bacterial defense

Eosinophilic granules with basophilic cytoplasm, look like a flower low key

71
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What is the function of enteroendocrine cells? What system are they a part of?

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Make and release paracrine and endocrine horomones

Part of the DNES (Diffuse Neuroendocrine System) (DNES is also in the stomach)

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What is the function of M (microfold) cells? Is it unique to the small intestine? What is another name?

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Aggregation of immune cells creates a small barrier over enlarged lymphatic nodules
Unique to the small intestine
AKA Peyer’s Patch

73
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What does the lymphatic nodule under the M-cells do?

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Surveillance of the lumen for the immune system

74
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What are microvilli anchored into?

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Terminal Web

75
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What function does the microvilli perform?

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Active transport to bring nutrients into the cell

Secrete out digestive enzymes

76
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What type of cell in the small intestine has microvilli?

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Enterocytes

77
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What are the two states enteroendocrine cells can have in the small intestine?

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Closed and open
Activation of taste receptors when open
Similar to cells in the stomach

78
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What specific hormones do Enteroendocrine cells of the small intestine release? What are their functions? (2)

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CCK - acts on gallbladder and pancreas

Secretin - acts on pancreas

79
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Where are paneth cells located?

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the base of intestinal glands of the small intestine

80
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What are the 3 functions of the large intestine?

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  1. Water absorption
  2. Vitamin absorption
  3. Feces storage
81
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What are the 3 anatomical sections of the large intestine?

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  1. Cecum
  2. Colon
  3. Rectum
82
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What is included in the cecum of the large intestine?

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Veriform appendix (which is before the cecum)

83
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What is included in the colon of the large intestine? (4)

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  1. Ascending
  2. Transverse
  3. Descending
  4. Sigmoid
84
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What are Teniae Coli? What is their function? Where are they located?

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Thicked bands of the outer longitudinal layer of muscularis externa
Penetrate the inner circular layer to create pouches = huastra coli
In the large intestine

85
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What are haustra coli? What is their function? Where are they located?

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Haustra Coli are sacculations of the colon caused by teniae coli
In the large intestine
Allow for independent contractions

86
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What type of accessory cells are in intestinal glands of the large intestine?

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Simple columnar
Goblet cells
Absorptive Cells

87
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What cells do the intestinal glands of the large intestine lack?

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No paneth cells

88
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What accessory cells are in the lamina propria of the large intestine?

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Lymphocytes

Large GALT

89
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What are “large GALT” cells?

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Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue

90
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What does the lamina propria of the large intestines lack?

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Does not have lymphatic vessels

91
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What are transverse rectal folds? What are they analogous to? Where are they found?

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Submucosa pushes upwards to create folds
In the rectum
Similar to rugea and plica circulares

92
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What type of cell is abundant in the rectum?

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Goblet cells

Simple columnar epithelium

93
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What 2 parts make up the anal canal?

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  1. Anal Columns (upper)

2. Stratified Squamous (lower)

94
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What is the anal canal?

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Separates rectum and anus, very narrow

95
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What is the anus?

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External regions of the large intestine

96
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What type of tissue make sup the anal canal vs anus?

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Anal canal - non-keratinized stratified squamous

Anus - keratinized stratified squamous, hair follicles, sweat glands, apocrine glands

97
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What is the internal anal sphincter? What muscle type is it made of?

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Smooth muscle
Involuntary movement
Muscle thickens?

98
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What is the external anal sphincter? What type of muscle type is it made of?

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Skeletal Muscle

Voluntary movement

99
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Rectum-Anal Junction what transitions do you see?

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Simple columnar > non-keratinized stratified squamous > keratinized stratified squamous

100
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What are the characteristics of anal glands? What is their function?

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Extend into submucosa

Secrete mucus

101
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What are circumanal glands? What is their function?

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Apocrine glands

Sex attractant in some animals

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