Digestive Tract (DT) Flashcards
Function: oral cavity
Ingestion and initial fragmentation
Function: esophagus
Conduct food from oral cavity to stomach
Function: stomach
Complete fragmentation and initial digestion
Function: duodenum
Get enzymes from pancreas and liver
Function: jejunum & ileum
Complete digestion and main absorption
Function: large intestines
Absorption of water and ions
Layers of the DT
- Mucosa
- Submucosa
- Musculosa
- Serosa (Adventitia)
The walls of the mucosa layer has three layers covered with two types of epithelial cells
- Stratified squamous epithelium
- Simple columnar epithelium
Function: wall of the mucosa layer
- A selectively permeable membrane
- Digestion and absorption
- Produce hormone
- Secrete mucus for lubrication and protection
DT layer of connective tissue containing the Submucosa nerve plexus
Submucosa
DT layer of smooth muscle cells and less skeletal muscle cells with inner circular and outer longitudinal sub layers
Muscularis
The nerve plexus found in the muscularis layer of DT
Myenteric nerve plexus
Function: myenteric nerve plexus
The contraction of muscularis propel and mix the food in digestive tracts
The adventitia:
Serosa: LCT + mesothelium
Fibrosa: LCT
Three layers of the mucosa layer
- Stratified squamous epithelium
- Lamina propria
- Muscularis (mucosa)
In the mucosa of the stomach, the columnar cells toward the surface are called
Surface mucous cell
Invaginates into the lamina propria, opens into the gastric gland and functions to
Gastric pit
Distribution: most of the stomach (body and fundus) except pylorus and cardia
Structure:
1. simple or branched tubular glands
2. Glands open into gastric pit
3. The epithelium of the gland include:
- chief cells
- parietal cells
- neck mucous cells
- undifferentiated cells
- endocrine cells
Main gastric gland
Parietal cell is also called
Oxyntic cell