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GI tract overview Flashcards

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What are the different cavities in the body?

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What are the standard 4 layers of the GI tract?

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Mucosa= lining of the tract
Submucosa= connective tissue where blood vessels and nerves lie
Muscularis= layers of smooth musclr and nerves
Serosa= smooth visceral layer

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3
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What can be absorbed in the mouth and why is that important?

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GTN spray and alcohol
Important as the bloodstream connects straight to the systemic circulation, which is different to the rest of the gut which goes into the portal system to the liver

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What purpose does the mouth have?

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Key for mastication, speech, starts digestion (amylase) and some absorption

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What 3 areas is the pharynx divided into?

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Nasopharynx
Oropharynx
Laryngopharynx

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What is peristalsis?

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Process by which a food bolus gets from one end of the GI tract to the other
It is involuntary
Muscles contract and push food down while muscles in front of the bolus relax and allow it to pass
Not based on gravity

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What cells line the oesophagus?

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Lined with stratified squamous epithelium (thick and robust) until the last 1cm when it becomes columnar epithelium
Seperated by the z line
SE= paler, CE= pinker

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Are the muscles voluntary or involuntary in the oesophagus?

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Voluntary (striated) in upper 1/3
Involuntary (smooth) in lower 1/3
Mixed in middle

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What are the functions of the upper and and lower oesophageal sphincter?

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Upper= stops air getting into gut
Lower= prevents food/acid reflux

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What are the two types of hiatal hernia?

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Sliding= more common, sphincter has loosened and stomach as moved up into thoracic cavity
PO= less common, separate diaphragmic defect where the stomach moves up next the oesophagus
They are not worrying, but does increase the chance of reflux

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What is the function of the stomach?

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Breaks down food into a slurry/chyme

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What is the wall of the stomach like?

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The mucosa is folded into rugae (folds) and within these are gastric pits

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What are different parts of the stomach?

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What are the different elements that are secreted into the stomach?

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Glands= secrete mucous to protect the wall from the acid
Chief cells= secrete pepsin (enzyme that breaks down proteins)
Parietal cells= secretes HCl and intrinsic factor
Endocrine cells= secrtes grelin and gastrin (digestive hormone)

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What is grelin?

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A hormone which promotes appetite

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16
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What does intrinsic factor allow?

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Intrinsic factor is a protein that helps your intestines absorb vitamin B12

17
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What are the 3 parts of the small intestine?

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Duodenum= first
Jejunum= second
Ileum= third

18
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What are the 4 areas of the duodenum?

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4 sections- directions
Straight (superior) then descending (this is where pancreas exits at sphincter of oddi) then horizontal and ascending then the DJ (duodenum jejunum) flexure

19
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Where does the ileum end?

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The ileo-caecal valve in the right iliac fossa

20
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What is the mucosa of the small intestine folded into?

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Villi

21
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What is found between the villi in the small intestine?

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Crypts of pluripotent cells which replenish the villi cells in an upwards conveyer belt fashion

22
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What are enterocytes?

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Enterocytes, or intestinal absorptive cells, are simple columnar epithelial cells which line the inner surface of the small and large intestines
Have microvilli on them- known as the ‘brush border’

23
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What are the different sections of the colon/large intestine?

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-Caecum
-Colon (ascending, transverse, descending and sigmoid)
-Rectum
-Anal canal

24
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When does the columnar epithelium start and end in the GI tract?

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Start- z line in oesophagus
End- anal canal
Before and after= squamous

25
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Is the anal sphincter muscle smooth or striated?

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Internal= smooth
External= striated

26
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What does the wall of the colon look like?

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Mucus secreting glands present
No villi but crypts
Muscles are grouped into dense strips and rings. These are shorter than the bowel and mean pouches are formed
The folds do not tend to go all the way round the tube

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What are the dense muscle strips and pouches called in the colon?

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Strips= taeniae coli
Pouches= haustra

28
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What are the small intestine circular folds called?

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Pilcae circulares

29
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What is the appendix?

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The appendix is a small, thin pouch about 5-10cm
Tissue located between the small intestine (cecum) and large intestine
May have a roll in gut microflora- reserviour
Variable position

30
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What is the peritoneum and what are the two layers?

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A continuous membrane that covers most of the abdominal organs
Two layers- visceral (lines organs) and parietal (lines walls of abdominal cavity)

31
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What organs are retroperitoneal?

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Pancreas, kidneys, adrenal glands, urinary tracts, part of duodenum, colin and rectum

32
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What is the mesentry?

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A large fold of parietal peritoneum that attaches to the entire length of the small intestine and prevents it knotting up

33
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What is the omentum?

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Continuation of the serosa of the stomach

34
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What is the gallbladder?

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Lies below liver, stores bile
When triggered by CCK it empties

35
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How does bile get to the small intestine from the gallbladder?

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Gallbladder empties into cystic duct, part of biliary tree between GB and common bile duct
CBD- cystic duct and common hepatic duct join together
Then runs through head of the pancreas
Bile moves down to the small intestine where it will mix with food bolus.

36
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What are the fat soluable vitamins that bile is needed to absorp?

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A, D, E, K

37
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What are the missing labels?

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38
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What does the pancreas secrete?

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Pancreatic juice with digestive enzymes and sodium bicarbonate
Islets of lanerhangs secrete hormones

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