Fed, Fasted and Starvation Flashcards
What is the absorptive state known as?
Fed State, just after eating a meal and therefore are actively absorbing nutrients.
What is the post absorptive state?
Fasted state, after nutrients and energy has already been absorbed and therefore you must acquire energy from the stores within the body.
Where do the absorbed nutrients enter into first and which organ is required?
Portal blood first
First port of call is the liver
In the liver what is glucose converted to?
Glycogen
In muscle what is glucose converted to?
Glycogen
In other tissues what can glucose be converted to?
Kerbs cycle energy
In adipose tissue what can Glucose be converted to?
TG
What are amino acids converted to in the liver?
Keto acids and energy
What are amino acids converted to in the muscles?
Proteins
What is the hormone controlling the switch between post absorptive and absorptive states?
Insulin.
Due to increased glucose and insulin in the blood
Where is insulin secreted?
Beta cells of the islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.
What is the trigger for insulin release?
High blood glucose and amino acid levels
Which transported is responsible for glucose uptake into the beta cells?
GLUT2 which is insulin insensitive.
What happens when glucose is transported into the beta cells.
Triggers generation of ATP from glucose metabolism and Ca influx
Raised intracellular Ca causes insulin exocytosis.
After insulin is released what leads to glucose uptake in cells?
After insulin secretion
GLUT4 is recruited to cells and enables glucose to be up taken.
This leads to decreased blood glucose concentration and therefore removal of insulin