GI Flashcards
Disulphiram (antabuse)
Inhibits aldehyde dehydrogenase
Intraepithelial lymphocytes contain mainly what cell from the adaptive immune response
CD8+ TCells
Metformin does what (biguinides)
Supressing glucose production
Prostaglandin inhibits parietal cell secretion by
Binding and subsequent activation of an inhibitory G protein (Gi), which in turn inhibits activation of adenylate cyclase
Smoking may help what GI disease
UC
What IBD has histological findings of Crypt abscesses, loss of goblet cells, mucosal or submucosal inflammation and gland preservation
UC
What IBD would have histological findings of Granulomas, transmural inflammation, gland preservation and aphthous ulceration
Crohns
What is bilirubin conjugated with in the liver, and what does it form after transport to the gut via bile?
Glucoronic acid
Diabetic retinopathy mechanism?
Damaged basement membrane & increased permeability of retinal capillaries leading to small haemorrhages. New vessel formation, possibly due to hypoxia from tissue disturbances.
Two ways nerves affected by diabetes?
Damage to the small blood vessels surrounding the sheath
Accumulation of sorbitol and fructose in schwann cells which disrupts function and structure, and leads to demyelination
What would you look for in an endoscopic biopsy to determine Coeliac disease
villous atrophy
What is segmentation?
Mixing of foodstuffs with digestive enzymes
What is the migrating motor complex?
Clearance of residual substances
Where is meckels diverticulum found?
Ileum
Where are plicae circulares found?
jejunum
After rotation what happens to the vitelline duct?
It degenerates
Lesser omentum is derived from where?
Dorsal mesentary
parasympathetic stimulation produces what type of saliva?
Watery
Sympathetic saliva?
Mucous and thick
Regarding insulin secretion what does somatostatin do?
Supresses insulin secretion
What can be used as a marker of endogenous insulin production?
C-peptide
Glucagon-like intestinal peptide 1 (GLP-1) does what?
Secreted from the gut and drives insulin production
What does glucagon do in the liver?
Increases gluconeogenisis
What increases membrane levels of glut 4?
Insulin
The rate limiting step in the urea cycle is?
Carbomoyl phosphate synthase
Ghrelin does what in the stomach?
Released to enhance hunger
Leptin is released from where and does what>
Adipocytes to supress hunger
Alpha malanocyte stimulating hormone does what?
Acts in hypothalamus to supress hunger
Neuropeptide Y does what?
Acts in hypothalamus to stimulate hunger
Peptide YY is released where and does what?
Colon, to supress hunger, also colonic brake
gastrin is a homologue of what?
CCK
What is growth hoirmone
peptide hormone
growth hormone affects plasma glucose how?
tend to increase
what level is the rectosigmoid junction?
S3
T3 and T4 have how many residues of what element
iodine respectively
T4 is converted to the more active?
T3
Low Thyroid levels can cause what?
Goitre
Which hepatitis does not cause cirrhosis?
Hep A
Crohns disease is patchy or continuous?
patchy
Crypt abscess formation is indicative of what?
UC
Inflammation of entire intestinal wall indicative of/
Crohns
Toxic megacolon may occur in which condition?
UC
Poor wound healing is typical of type what diabetes?
2
Glucosuria is accompanied by what in type 1 diabetes>
ketonurea
Type one is in south asian populations? ture of false
False usually type 2
Family history of diabetes is more common in which type?
2
Meckels diverticulum is usually symptomatic in how many cases?
2%
Volvulus of the midgut is associated with what?
Billious vomiting
Haem is metabolised to billirubin where?
kuppfer cells of liver but also the spleen
Uncouplers allow electron transport to continue without what?
Phosphorylation
Cyanide inhibits the ETC by doing what?
blocking the release of electrons to oxygen at complex IV
NADH donates electrons at complex …?
I
Energy donated by electrons to complexes I III and IV is used to transport what?
H+ ions from mitochondrial matrix to intermembrane space
Liver produces bile in what week?
12
Intra epithelia lymphocytes are mainly what type?
CD8
Lamina propria contains what types of immune cells
Blympho, cd4 t lympho and mast cells
The sphincter of oddi relaxes in response to what?
CCK-z
CCK comes from which cells?
I cells
CCK A receptor for
CCK
Growth hormone is supressed by what?
Somatostatin
CCk B receptor for
gastrin
what happens in the cori cycle?
Lactic acid is sent back to the liver to be made into glucose
Hexokinase does what for what reason?
converts glucose into glucose-6 phosphate stops it leaving the cell
Aldolase does what to fructose 1,6 biphosphate
splits into 2 X 3C
when split into 2 what is the useful 3C product?
glyceraldehyde 3 phosphate
ATP is generated when in glycolysis?
making 3 phospho glycerate and when making pyruvate!
irreversible steps of glycolysis?
hexokinase, phophofructokinase and pyruvate kinase
how many ATP from aerobic glycolysis?
2ATP per glucose
absence of oxygen pyruvate =
lactate then cori cycle to become pyruvate again then glucose
glucose 6 phosphate to glucose 1 phosphate is what?
glycogen synthesis
is atp require to converts glycogen to glucose 1 phosphate/6 phosphate in liver and koidney?
No!
High insulin stimulates what?
glycolysis
high glucagon inhibits?
glycolysis
carnitine transports fatty acids where?
across mitochondiral membrane
one palmitoyl coa produces how many ATP
108!!
ketone bodies are formed from what?
excess acety coA in mitochondria of liver
the brain can use ketone bodies true or false?
true
what stage of cholersterol sye?nthesis control the rat
acetyl coa to mevalonate
cytosol and smooth ER are sites for what syntesis>
cholesterol
can cholesterol be broken down?
no only excretedd in faecaes
foam cells do what?
eat fats create plaques
Apoe 4 increases risk of what?
alzheimers
ethanol produces large amounts of what?
NADH
turnover of ATP is how ,much?
75kg/day
uncouplers can be weak what?
Acids
can NADH cross inner membrane
no
NAdh is oxidised in the cytosol and reduced in the?
matrix
energy from proton gradients is used to do what in the ETC
phosphorylate ADP
which hormone is released pulsatile
Growth hormone and at night
diabetogenic affects seen in what?
growth hormone