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Digestive Tract (DT) Flashcards

1
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Function: oral cavity

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Ingestion and initial fragmentation

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Function: esophagus

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Conduct food from oral cavity to stomach

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Function: stomach

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Complete fragmentation and initial digestion

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4
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Function: duodenum

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Get enzymes from pancreas and liver

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5
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Function: jejunum & ileum

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Complete digestion and main absorption

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Function: large intestines

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Absorption of water and ions

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Layers of the DT

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  1. Mucosa
  2. Submucosa
  3. Musculosa
  4. Serosa (Adventitia)
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8
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The walls of the mucosa layer has three layers covered with two types of epithelial cells

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  1. Stratified squamous epithelium
  2. Simple columnar epithelium
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Function: wall of the mucosa layer

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  1. A selectively permeable membrane
  2. Digestion and absorption
  3. Produce hormone
  4. Secrete mucus for lubrication and protection
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10
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DT layer of connective tissue containing the Submucosa nerve plexus

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Submucosa

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11
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DT layer of smooth muscle cells and less skeletal muscle cells with inner circular and outer longitudinal sub layers

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Muscularis

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12
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The nerve plexus found in the muscularis layer of DT

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Myenteric nerve plexus

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13
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Function: myenteric nerve plexus

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The contraction of muscularis propel and mix the food in digestive tracts

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14
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The adventitia:

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Serosa: LCT + mesothelium

Fibrosa: LCT

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15
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Three layers of the mucosa layer

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  1. Stratified squamous epithelium
  2. Lamina propria
  3. Muscularis (mucosa)
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16
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In the mucosa of the stomach, the columnar cells toward the surface are called

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Surface mucous cell

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17
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Invaginates into the lamina propria, opens into the gastric gland and functions to

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Gastric pit

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18
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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

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Main gastric gland

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19
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Parietal cell is also called

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Oxyntic cell

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20
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Distribution: more numerous in upper half of the gland

Function:
1. Secrete hydrochloric acid
2. Produce intrinsic factor

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Parietal cell

21
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Function: Intrinsic Factor

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Intrinsic factor processes Vitamin B-12 into complex which aids the production of erythrocytes

22
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Breaks down protein into peptides and solid food becomes liquefied

23
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Activates the pepsinogen secreted from chief cells

24
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Distribution: the mucosa of cardia and pylorus respectively

Function: secrete mucous

Structure: composed mainly of mucous cells

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Cardiac and pyloric glands

25
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Three special features of small intestine used to increase the surface area for the contact with food to promote absorption and digestion:

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  1. Plicae circulares (3-fold)
  2. Villi (10-fold)
  3. Microvilli (20-fold)
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Intestinal villi is most developed in the

27
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Intestinal glands are also called

28
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Cells which aggregate at the bottom of the gland

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Paneth cells

29
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Digestive and absorptive process take place on the surface of ________ along the microfilaments

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Microvilli

30
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There are no goblet cells in the

31
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________ and ________ are present outside the gland

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  1. Undifferentiated cell
  2. Endocrine cells
32
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Glands in the duodenum are also called

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Brunner’s gland (duodenal glands)

33
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Aggregated lymphoid nodules

34
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In the mucosa layer of large intestines
Function: goblet cells

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Secrete mucus

35
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The narrowest part of the gut; a blind-ended tubule; poorly formed crypts; mucosa and Submucosa contain abundant lymphoid tissue

36
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Possible extensions of Peyer patches in ileum

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Duodenal glands

37
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Solitary (jejunum) and aggregated (ileum) - most prominent forming Peyer’s patches

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Gut-Associated lumphoid tissue (GALT)

38
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GALT has many immune cells and function in

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Protection

39
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Specialized epithelial cells overlying Peyer’s patches

40
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M-cells are also called

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Microfolds - cells

41
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Epithelium of the gut contains scattered cells that have an endocrine function

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Enteroendocrine

42
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Endocrine cells can be identified by the presence of ______ which stain black by silver staining

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Argentaffin cells

43
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Fig 1
Special epithelial lining

44
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Fig 2
Pit; gastric line

45
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Fig 3
Finger-like

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Jejunum
(Small intestine)

46
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Fig 5

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Paneth cells

47
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Fig 4
Duodenal gland

48
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Fig 9
Narrow lumen

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