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Gastrointestinal Tract - Digestion of Biomolecules Flashcards

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Where does the digestion of carbohydrates start?

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In the mouth

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What enzyme is found in the mouth that begins the digestion of carbohydrates?

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Salivary amylase

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What happens to salivary amylase in the stomach?

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Its action is diminished

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Why does salivary amylase not work in the stomach?

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The pH of the stomach is too low

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Other than the mouth where does amylase work?

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The small intestine

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What form is amylase in the small intestine?

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Pancreatic amylase

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Why does amylase work in the small intestine but not the stomach?

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Because the pH of the small intestine rises

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Where does pancreatic amylase enter the small intestine?

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The duodenum

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What breaks down maltose?

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Maltase

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Where is maltase found?

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The brush border

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In general what happens to disaccharides in the GIT?

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Disaccharides are broken down into simple sugars

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Where in the GIT are disaccharides broken down into simple sugars?

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The small intestine

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What must simple sugars pass through in order to enter the bloodstream?

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The apical membrane

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How do glucose and sodium enter enterocytes?

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They must bind to protein in order to enter the enterocyte

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Explain the process of sodium and glucose entering an enterocyte.

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Sodium must be pumped out of one cell and into another to set up the concentration gradient across the basal lateral membrane

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How does glucose move from an enterocyte to the bloodstream?

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By diffusion

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What happens when glucose enters the bloodstream?

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It passes through to the liver

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What happens to glucose in the liver?

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It is either stored in the liver or used by the body

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Whether or not glucose is stored in the liver depends on what?

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It depends on the levels of insulin in the body

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Explain how insulin controls how much glucose is stored by the liver.
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Increased insulin causes glucose to be stored as glycogen in the liver

Low insulin causes glycogen to be used

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What is the name of the protein that carried glucose across membranes?

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Transport proteins

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What is another name for simple sugars?

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Monosaccharides

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Where exactly in the bloodstream do monosaccharides enter?

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They enter the portal circulation

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What are proteins also called?

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Polypeptides

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What happens to proteins in the gastric phase?
In the gastric phase hydrochloric acid and pepsin breaks down polypeptides into peptide fragments
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What enzyme is used to break down polypeptides?
Pepsin
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What are proteins broken into in the gastric phases?
Peptide fragments
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How long does it take for proteins to be broken down into peptide fragments?
This process takes hours
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What is the brush border?
Microvilli of the small intestine
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What part of the intestine receives the chyme?
The duodenum
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What is present in pancreatic juices that helps break down peptide fragments?
Sodium carbonate (alkaline) Enzymes - pancreatic amylase and zymogens
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What enzymes are present in pancreatic juices? | 2
Pancreatic amylase Zymogens
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What are zymogens?
Inactive enzymes responsible for breaking down proteins
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Why are zymogens used to break down proteins?
Zymogens are inactive in the pancreas but become active in the duodenum so as to not damage the pancreas
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What is cystic fibrosis?
Blockage of pancreatic juice which leads to inflammation due to incomplete breakdown of proteins
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What does the chyme in the small intestine containing broken down peptide fragments trigger?
It triggers the enterogastro reflex
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What is the enterogastric reflex? | 2
This is releases enterogasterones This relaxes the hepatopancreatic sphincter which causes it to open
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What happens when the hepatopancreatic sphincter opens?
This allows pancreatic juice to enter the small intestine
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What enters the small intestine when the hepatopancreatic sphincter opens? (3)
Trypsinogen Chymotrypsinogen Procarboxy-peptidase
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What is trypsinogen converted into in the SI?
Trypsin
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What converts trypsinogen into trypsin?
enteropeptidase
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Where is enteropeptidase found?
Mucosa
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What does trypsin do? | 2
Converts chymotrypsinogen into chymotrypsin Converts procarboxypeptidase into carboxypeptidase
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What is chymotrypsinogen converted into?
Chymotrypsin
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What is procarboxypeptidase converted into?
It is converted into carboxypeptidase
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How do proteins enter the blood stream?
Co-transport with sodium
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How do proteins enter cells using co-transport with sodium? | 2
A concentration gradient on the basal membrane side needs to be set up for sodium Need to decrease sodium concentration levels in enterocyte to create gradient
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What do proteins use to enter the blood stream?
Protein carriers
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Where in the blood stream do proteins enter?
The portal circulation
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Where does the digestion of lipids begin?
The mouth
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What is found in the mouth that digests lipids?
Lingual lipase in saliva
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What percentage of lipids are digested in the mouth?
10% of a lipid is digested
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What happens to lingual lipase in the stomach?
It becomes ineffective
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Why do lipids become ineffective in the stomach?
Low pH
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What form are lipids in the stomach?
Fat globules
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Are lipids polar or non-polar?
They are non-polar
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Lipids are non-polar what does this mean?
They are hydrophobic
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What happens to lipids in the small intestine?
They form clumps
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How are lipids broken down in the SI?
Lipases (enzymes) from the pancreas enter the SI and have an affect on lipids
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What needs to be done to lipids before lipases can work efficiently?
The lipids need to be emulsified
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How are lipids emulsified?
Using bile salts
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What happens to bile salts when there not needed? | 2
They are stored in the gall bladder They are dehydrated first then stored
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What are bile salts said to be?
amphipathic
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Bile salts are amphipathic, what does this mean?
They have a hydrophilic/polar side and a hydrophobic/non-polar side
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How do bile salts emulsify lipids? | 2
Bile salts bind to outside of fat droplet Chyme binds to inside of fat droplet
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Explain the effects of pancreatic juice on lipids. | 3
Pancreatic juice contains pancreatic lipase Lipase acts on the fat droplet Lipase breaks down into free fatty acids, monoglyceride, monolipids
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What does pancreatic lipase break lipids into to? | 3
Free fatty acids Monoglycerides Monolipids
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What is formed after the pancreatic lipase has worked on the lipids?
Micelles
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How do micelles enter enterocytes?
They diffuse through the apical membrane
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Describe the process of lipids entering circulation. | 4
They are packaged into chylomicrons by the smooth endoplasmic reticulum and the golgi apparatus Enter lacteals containing lymph fluid Lymph brought to the thoracic duct Lymph drains into general circulation
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Why do chylomicrons enter the lacteals? | 2
Chylomicrons are too big to enter capillaries Therefore, they bypass them by entering the lacteals in the lamina propria
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Where in the tissue are lacteals present?
The lamina propria
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What do lacteals contain?
Lymph fluid
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Where are lipids brought in the lymph fluid?
The thoracic duct

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