Digestive System-Lower Flashcards
The hall mark of duodenum is _____ glands in the submucosa, short and broad villi, and an incomplete serosa that is mostly _____
brunner’s
adventitia
The jejunum consists of _____ finger like vili, well developed ______, and numerous _____ cells in crypts
long
lacteals
paneth
The illeum consists of ____ finger like villi, _____ _____, and paneth cells
short
peyer’s patches
Tissue modifications to increase surface area in the small intestine include: 3 things
plicae circulares
vili
microvilli
_____ ______ (also called valves of kerckring) are permanent spiral folds of the mucosa and submucosa, found in the duodenum distal half, jejunum, and proximal half of ileum
plicae circulares
Intestinal villi are finger like projections of ______. The villus core consists of lamina propria with plasma cells, lymphocytes, fibroblasts, mast cells, smooth muscle cells capillaries, and a single _____ (blind-end lymphatic cell)
mucosa
lacteal
The ____ of the intestinal villi is the main channel for fat absorption
lacteal
Capillary plexi are located in ____ and at the base of the ____ in small intestine
villi
crypts
crypts of lieberkuhn are _____ tubular glands that extend from approximately the middle of the villus to the the base of ____ near muscularis mucosae
simple
epithelium
Crypts of liberkuhn are composed of 5 types of cells:
goblet cells columnar cells enteroendocrine cells regenerative cells paneth cells
The number of goblet cells ____ from the duodenum to the colon
increases
____ cells are found at the base of crypts of liberfkuhn and are unique to the small intestine
paneth
Microvilli are found on the ____ surface of the enterocytes. They consist of a core of ____ filaments linked with ____ and ____
apical
actin
fimbrillin, villin
Actin microvilli are anchored to the plasma membrane by myosin 1 and _____. At the base of the actin bundle is a rootlet that is crosslinked by an intestine form of ____ to adjacent rootlets
calmodulin
spectrin
The _____ ____ in microvilli consists of intermediate filiaments attached to rootlets and spectrin
terminal web
Small intestine motility is controlled by the submucosal ____ plexus and the _____ plexus between the inner and outer smooth muscle layers of muscularis externa.
meissner’s
myenteric
_____ cells are unicellular glands that produce mucinogen. This accumulates in membrane-bound granules in the _____ region. After being released, mucinogen is converted to ____
goblet
apical
mucous
____ are surface absorptive cells in the small intestine
enterocytes
Enterocytes are tall ____ cells with an apical surface posssing microvilla covered by a _____
columnar
glycocalyx
enterocytes have well developed zonulae _____ (tight junctions) and zonula _____ and lateral _____
occulens
adherens
plications
Enterocytes divide down in the ____ and migrate up the villus, where they slough off at the villus ___ after 5-6 days
crypts
tip
The enzymes ____, ___, and ____ are located in the brush border membrane and digest carbohyrdates
lactase
maltase
sucrase
_____ and ____ in microvilli degrade proteins into di and tripeptides and amino acids
enterokinase
aminopeptidase
Cytoplasmic ____ degrades di and tripeptides to amino acids
peptidase
micellar lipids diffuse into microvilli and become linked to _____ ____ ____ _____. They than are transported to and esterified in the ____ ____ to form TG
fatty acid binding protein
smooth ER