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What is the primary function of the GI system?

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break down of food and absorption of dietary nutrients to be used for energy

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What helps the process of digestion?

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secretions added along the tract - these convert large molecules to smaller ones - “digestion”

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What are other functions of the GI system? (not including digestion)

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storage

excretion

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What does the GI system consist of?

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  • oral cavity
  • pharynx
  • oesophagus
  • stomach
  • small intestine
  • large intestine
  • rectum
  • anus
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What do accessory organisms do?

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secrete enzymes to break down food

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What are the accessory organs?

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  • salivary glands
  • liver
  • pancreas
  • gall bladder
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What are the layers of the GI system?

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  • mucosa
  • submucosa
  • muscular externa
  • serosa
    different layers come into prominence at different locations along the tube depending on location and function
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What does the mucosa consist of?

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  • epithelium
  • lamina propria
  • muscular mucosa
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What are the epithelium lining the GI tract like?

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  • single layered
  • shed and replaced every 2-3 days
  • villi and crypts vary by section function - for absorption and motility
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Where do the apical and basolateral sides of the GI tract face?

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apical - GI lumen

basolateral - interstitium and vasculature

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What does the lamina propria (of mucosa) consist of?

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  • loose CT - made of elastin and collagen fibers

- contains sensory nerves, blood and lymph vessels, secretory glands

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What does the muscular mucosa (of mucosa) consist of?

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  • thin layer of smooth muscle

- further increases surface area by creating ridges and folds

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What does the submucosa consist of?

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  • thick layer with similar composition to lamina propria ( CT - thick layer - elastin and collage fibres)
  • blood vessels and nerve bundles form a submucosal plexus - part of enteric nervous system
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What does the Muscular external (ME) consist of?

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  • circular muscle
  • myenteric plexus
  • longitudinal muscle
  • ENS co-ordinates contractions to move contents between compartments
  • sphincters regulate flow from compartment to next
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What does the serosa consist of?

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  • layer of CT
  • layer of squamous epithelial cells
  • some sections do not have a serial layer (oesophagus) but connect directly with asventina (CT blends into abdominal or pelvic wall)
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What 3 divisions of the autonomic nervous system regulate GI function?

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  • parasympathetic (PSNS)
  • sympathetic (SNS)
  • enteric (ENS)
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What is absorption?

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the process of transporting dietary contents across the gastrointestinal barrier into the body

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What is digestion?

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the chemical breakdown of food

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How does the body mechanically breakdown food?

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using smooth (mixing) or skeletal (chewing) muscle contractions

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What is secretion?

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the act of transporting molecules or fluid from the body to the gastrointestinal lumen

  • facilitates digestion by delivering enzymes and water
  • protects endothelial surface by secreting HC03- and mucus
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What role does the sympathetic nervous system play in the GI system?

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decreases the functions of the parasympathetic nervous system - facilitates secretion and motility

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What role does the parasympathetic nervous system play in the GI system?

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facilitates secretion and motility

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What role does the enteric nervous system play in the GI system?

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can operate independently and is involved with reflexes and the majority of GI functions

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List GI hormones?

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  • cholecystokinin
  • gastrin
  • glucose-dependent insulinotropic peptide
  • motilin
  • secretin
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List GI paracrines?
- histamines - prostaglandins - somatostatin
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What are the phases of digestion?
- cephalic - gastric - intestinal
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What occurs in cephalic phase?
- triggered by thought of food - stimulates secretion by salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, intestines - initiates primarily neural responses - ACh and VIP release
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What occurs in gastric phase?
- begins when food and oral secretions enter stomach - concedes with distension - triggers neural, hormonal, paracrine responses
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What occurs in intestinal phase?
- begins when stomach contents reach duodenum | - initiates primarily hormonal, but also paracrine and neural responses
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What is a paracrine hormone?
works locally
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What do phases of digestion allow for?
``` preparation timing regulation feedback - cephalic - feedfoward regulation - gastric and intestinal - feedback mechanisms ```
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What forms the upper GI tract?
- mouth - oesophagus - stomach
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What is the function of the GI tract?
- transports and prepares food to be absorbed (breaking into smaller pieces, hydrating to improve environment for enzymatic actions) - minimal role in nutrient absorption
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What is the function of the mouth?
- reduces food size and mixes with secretions from salviery glands (mastication = chewing)
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Hat are the three salivary glands?
- sublingual - submandibular - parotid
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What NS are salivary glands controlled by?
both sympathetic and parasympathetic
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What is the process of salivary secretions?
Cl-, Na+, water are transported into duct lumen | then ductal cells reabsorb Na+ and Cl- and secrete K+ and HCO-3
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What is the function go the oesophagus?
transports food from the mouth to the stomach
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How does oesophagus peristalsis occur?
series of coordinates muscle contractions and relaxations - "wave" - commences after oesophageal sphincter
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What is swallowing?
a conscious act that moves food from mouth through the upper oesophageal sphincter - voluntarily then involuntary when intitiated - parasympathetic process
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What are the functions of the stomach?
- accept and store food - mix food with secretions - digest food - deliver food to small intestine
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Where do secretions in the stomach originate from?
- gastric invaginations "pits" | - these contain multiple cell types
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What are the three primary motility functions of the stomach?
- accommodation via receptive relaxation - mixing via slow wave-initiated contractions and retropulsion - gastric emptying
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What do gastric secretions include?
- ions and water - mucous from mucous neck cells - pepsinogen fro chief seeks 0 intrinsic factor and H+ from parietal cells
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What increases secretion?
- acetylcholine (from nerves) - gastrin (from G cells) - histamine (enterochromaffin)
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What decreases secretion?
- somatostatin from d cells | - prostaglandins
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What are the parts of the small intestine?
- duodenum - jejunum - ileum
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What part of the GI tract does most absorption occur?
- small intestine
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What allows high absorption in the small intestine?
large surface area from Ville and microvilli
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What are the parts of the large intestine?
- caecum - ascending colon - descending colon - sigmoid colon - rectum - anus
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What occurs in the large intestine?
- significant water and ion absorption | - motility of contents - mixing and propulsion
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What does motility in the small intestines involve?
- segmentation (mixing) - peristalsis - reflexes that control sphincter contraction and relaxation
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What is peristalsis?
- smooth muscle of wave contractions move food in one direction along GI tract
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What is segmentation?
smooth muscle back and fourth contractions to mix and break food further down
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What is the function of the ileocecal sphincter?
regulates the amount of chyme entering the large intestine
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What is a sphincter?
A circular muscle that normally maintains constriction of a natural body passage and which relaxes as required by normal physiological functioning.
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What do the internal and external sphincters do?
regulate feces exiting gastrointestinal system

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