Histology Of Digestive System Flashcards
Names of the 3 salivary glands
Sublingual, submandibular, parotid
2 enzymes secreted by salivary glands and their functions
Salivary amylase - breaks down complex carbs into simpler ones
Lingual lipase - breaks down lipids
What is chewed up food in mouth called?
Bolus
Name the 4 parts of the stomach
cardia / fundus / (body-antrum) / pylorus
Pulpy fluid mix created by mixing and partial digestion
Chyme
Layers of muscularis external in stomach
Normally there are 2, but in stomach there are 3; outer longitudinal, middle circular and inner oblique layers
Serosa of stomach is continuous with ____ peritoneum via ____, continuous with ____ peritoneum via ____.
Parietal → greater omentum
Visceral→ lesser omentum
What is z-line?
Esophagastric junction (abrupt charge into gastric lining)
esophagitis is closely related to…
Barrett’s Syndrome
Other name of gastric pits
Fovaolae
Epithelium changes from ____ in esophagus to____ in stomach
Nonkeratinized stratified squamous/ Simple columnar
Plexus in submucosa vs muscularis layers
Submucosa: Meissner’s
Muscularis: Auerbach
(both make up the enteric nervous system)
Name the sphincters
•Pharyngoesophageal (upper eso)
•Lower esophageal (pressure difference between eso&stomach)
•Pyloric (gastroduodenal)
• Illeocecal
• Internal anal
Esophagus’s relationship with serosa
Esophagus lacks serosa but has a thick layer of adventitia, thus not suspended via peritoneum but directly bound by neighboring structures
Innovations of esophagus?
Superior 1/3 (striated muscle): somatic motor neurons of vagus
Inferior 1/3 (smooth muscle): visceral motor neurons of vagus
Describe esophageal glands proper
Small, compound, tubuloalveolar; concentrated at upper half.
(Lower half has eso- cardiac glands secreting neutral mucus )
Longitudinal folds at inner surface of stomach are called
Rugae
Gastric pits lead to…
Long, branched, tubular glands
- line the lumen and gastric pits
*: surface mucous cells
Name 4 types of glands found in fundic region of stomach
• mucous neck cells
• Parietal cells
• Chief cells
• Enteroendocrine cells
Large apical cups of surface mucous cells appear empty in he staining because mucinogen granules are lost, but can be seen in…
Toluidine blue and PAS staining
Surface mucous cells secrete…
Prostoglandins (pge2) which stimulate secretion of bicarbonates (which makes the mucus alkaline)
+vasodilation ( to supply nutrients to damaged areas of mucousa )
What can fundic mucosa be stained with?
Alcian blue and pas
Why drugs like misoprostol to strengthen stomach lining are given?
Substances like alcohol, aspirin and NSAIDs enter the Lamina propria by damaging surface epithelium and suppressing production of pge2s
Isthmus between gastric pit and glands is a site of ____
Stem cells (either migrate up or down)
Large triangular cells with spherical nucleus and eosinophilic cytoplasm secrete…
HCl and intrinsic factor (used by the intestines to absorb B12)
HCl is produced in ___ of parietal (oxyntic) cells
Lumen of the intracellular canaliculi
(Also, there are numerous microvilli, mitochondria and a tubulovesicular membrane system at the surface and adjacent to the canaliculi, respectively)
How does the amount and the state of microvilli and the tubulovesiculer system change in parietal cells while they’re actively secreting?
Microvilli increases
Tv system is reduced
Name the 3 types of membrane receptors for activation of HCl secretion in parietal cells
Gastrin
Histamine H2
Muscarinic M3
receptors
HCl pathway in parietal cells
Gastrin - simulation - h ions produced in cytoplasm by carbonic anhydrase - H transported to lumen of canaliculi by H/K ATPase proton pump - K and Cl ions transported by uniporter channels - Formation
Basophilic cells located in deeper part of fundic region secrete…
Pepsinogen (pepsin precursor [contact with gastric juice converts it]) and a weak lipase.
Chief (zymogenic) cells have abundant ___ in basal cytoplasm (which also has ____ receptors); and _____ in apical cytoplasm
rER / acetylcholine / eosinophilic zymogen granules