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Introduction To The Funcions And Control Of The Alimentary Tract Flashcards

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What inhibits smooth muscle tone mechanoreceptors?

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Vagal reflex (Vasoactive intestinal peptide and nitric oxide)

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What does the antral region of the stomach body do?

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Mixes/grinds food with gastric secretions

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How much gastric juice does the stomach store in 24 hours?

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2-3 litres

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What is included in gastric juice?

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Mucus, Pepsinogen, intrinsic factor and lipase

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What does gastric juice help with?

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Digestion and absorption of food

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What is the function of mucus in the stomach?

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Lubricant that protects stomach and colon from gastric acid

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What does lipase do?

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TGs -> fatty acids and glycerol

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What is mucus secreted by?

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Goblet cells and mucus neck cells

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What is pepsin secreted by?

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Chief cells or peptic cells as pepsinogen

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What is pepsinogen?

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Inactive enzyme that forms pepsin in an acidic environment

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What is pepsins function?

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Protein digestion

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What is HCLs function?

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Important in defence and conversion of pepsinogen -> pepsin

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What is HCL secreted by?

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Parietal cells

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What are intrinsic factors secreted by?

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Parietal cells

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What is intrinsics function?

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Vit B12 absorption

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Where are paracrine secretions secreted from?

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Cells in the mucosa

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Where do paracrine secretions act?

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Locally on adjacent cells via interstitial fluid

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What is an example of a paracrine secretion?

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Somatostatin

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What does somatostatin do?

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Acts on g cells that inhibit gastrin release in the stomach

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Where are the 4 places that exocrine secretions happen?

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Salivary glands, gastric glands, pancreas, liver

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What do the salivary glands secrete?

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Mucus and lipase

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What do gastric glands secrete?

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HCL, pepsin, mucus

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What does the pancreas secrete?

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Bicarbonate ions, enzymes (amylase, lipase, carboxypeptidase)

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What does the liver secrete?

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Bile salts, bile acids

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What are endocrine secretions and where are they synthesised?
Hormones, synthesised by ductless glands
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How do endocrine secretions elicit a response?
Enter the bloodstream and travel to the target tissues where they bind to specific receptors
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Where is gastrins target?
Stomach (specifically G cells in the antrum)
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Where is secretins target?
Duodenal mucosa
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What does secretin do?
Balances the acidity from the stomach by telling the pancreas to secrete bicarbonate rich secretions
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Where is cholecystokinin targeted?
Duodenal mucosa
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What is insulin secreted by?
Pancreas (beta cells)
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What do endo, exo and paracrine secretions allow?
Active digestion and control of digestion, gastric motility and energy homeostasis
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What food types are transported across the intestinal epithelium into the blood?
Glucose and amino acids
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What food types are transported into the lymph via lacteals?
Fats and lipids
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Where does absorption mainly take place?
Small intestine
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What does the colon do?
Absorbs 90% of the water
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How may drugs and some products of normal metabolism leave the body?
Saliva, bile, faeces and vomit
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How do indigestible food particle leave the body?
Faeces
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What are the 7 defence mechanisms in the gut?
- sight, smell and taste - vomit reflex - acid in stomach - mucus secretions - natural bacteria flora - aggregation of lymphoid tissues - peyer’s patches
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How does acid in the stomach help in defence?
Kills most harmful bacteria
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How does natural flora help in defence?
Prevents colonisation of harmful bacteria
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How does aggregation of lymphoid tissue help in defence?
Analyse and respond to pathogenic microbes
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Where are peyers patches located?
In the lamina propria layer of mucosa and extending into the submucosa of the ileum
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What are the metabolic functions of the liver?
Involved in the carb, nitrate and lipoprotein metabolism Also production of bile and excretion of bilirubin
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What are the factors and mechanisms involved in the storage and digestion of the gut?
Mastication, swallowing, enzymatic digestion, absorption
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What are the factors and mechanisms involved in the motility of the gut?
Peristalsis, mass movement, ACh, motility, NO and VIP
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What are the factors and mechanisms involved in the defence of the gut?
Smell, sight, taste, gastric acid, vomit reflex, mucus, immune response (IgA)
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What is the name of the nerves that go from the gut muscle to the spinal cords?
Splanchnic nerves
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What is the name of the nerves that go from the gut muscle to the brain and ENS?
Afferent and efferent vagal nerves
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What chemicals mediate contraction in the GI tract?
ACh and substance p
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How does the ANS enable movement of food in the duodenum?
Ripples of contraction move the food towards the antrum.
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When does the pyloric sphincter close?
When a peristaltic wave arrives
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What causes the opening of the pyloric sphincter?
Repulsion of chyme
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What allows mixing/grinding in the duodenum?
Repulsion of antral contents backwards towards the body
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What is the sieving effect?
Viscous and solid matter (bigger than 2mm) being retained in the stomach
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What happens in the fundus?
Pacemaker zone, spontaneous depolarisation and BER and peristalsis
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Where can gastrin act?
Either directly on the cells that need to secrete acid | Or bind to histamine secreting ECL cells that act on parietal cells
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How do ECL cells act on parietal cells?
H2
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What effect does ACh have on parietal cells?
Secrete HCl via muscarinic receptors
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What does ECL cell stand for?
Enterochromaffin cell
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What does hyperacidity do to d cells?
Stimulates them to release somatostatin
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What does the vagovagal reflex describe?
The reflex in which both the afferent and efferent axons are in the vagal nerve trunk
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Where does the vagovagal reflex travel from?
Brain stem (medulla)
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When is the vagovagal reflex active?
Receptive relaxation in response to swallowing
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What does the vagovagal reflex promote?
Motility and acid secretion
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What does DMVN stand for?
Dorsal vagal complex nucleus
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What is the DMVN?
Main site of origin of vagal efferents supplying the gut
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What are the two nerve fibres in the enteric nervous system that are intrinsic to the gut?
``` Myenteric plexus (Auerbachs) Submucosal plexus (meissners) ```
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What does the myenteric plexus do?
Motor function
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What does meissners plexus do?
Intestinal secretions
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How are the nerve fibres connected to the CNS?
By parasympathetic fibres
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Do the myenteric and submucosal plexus’ need to be connected to the CNS to work?
No- it can be mediated entirely by the ENS
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What are the 6 neurotransmitters involved in the myenteric and submucosal plexus’?
ACh, NO, NA, 5HT, GABA, ATP
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Where are the two plexuses found?
In the wall of the colon
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Where do the plexuses receive input from?
PNS and SNS
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What effect does the parasympathetic nervous system have on the gut?
Increases contraction of proximal colon
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What effect does the sympathetic nervous system have on the gut?
Decreases colonic movement
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What is the colocolonic reflex?
Food products that increase motility
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Which is the most prominent plexus?
Myenteric
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What effect does cholinergic stimulation have on the myenteric plexus?
Increases gastric motility and secretion
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What effect does adrenergic stimulation have on the myenteric plexus?
Decreases gastric motility and secretion
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What is the timeline of how fast materials ability to be absorbed?
Fatty acids> proteins> carbs
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How do fatty acids in the duodenum decrease gastric emptying?
Increasing the contractility of the pyloric sphincter
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What is peristalsis?
A wave of propulsive contractions that moves the contents of the gut towards the anus
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What initiates contraction?
Distension
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What controls peristalsis?
Vagal inhibitory and excitatory fibres
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What causes relaxation in peristalsis?
When NO or VIP is released

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