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Ions, vitamins and minerals Flashcards

1
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What is molar, mM, µM, nM, pM and fM and thei conversions?

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Molar = one mole per litre

Millimolar (mM)       10-3
Micromolar (µM)     10-6
Nanomolar (nM)      10-9 
Picomolar  (pM) 	10-12 
Femtomolar  (fM) 	10-15
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What is diffusion?

Is it faster over macroscopic or microscopic distances?

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  • The process whereby atoms or molecules intermingle because of their random thermal motion.
  • Diffusion occurs rapidly over microscopic distances, but slowly over macroscopic distances.
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What is a hypotonic solution?

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Solution that has less solute and more water than another solution

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What is the pathway of water in osmosis (tonicity of solutions)?

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hyptonic ->isotonic->hypertonic

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5
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What are the two broad types of transport?

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Transcellular - through epithelial cells

Paraceullular - through tight junctions and lateral intercellular spaces

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Which membrane transporters are faster - channel or carrier protein?

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channel protein

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7
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What are some types of ion channels?

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Ion channels can be voltage gated, ligand gated, mechanically gated

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What are the types of carrier protein mediated transport?

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Uniport -one
Symport - cotransported
Antiport - counter transport

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9
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What is primary active transport and give an example?

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Linked directly to cellular metabolism (ATP powered)

E.G. Sodium Potassium ATPase

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What is secondary active transport and give an example?

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Derives energy from concentration gradient of another substance actively transported

E.G. Bicarbonate/Chloride counter-transport, SGLT-1

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11
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What is the importance of facilitated diffusion?

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Enhances rate a substance can flow down a concentration gradient
so it can reach equilibrium.

E.G. GLUT-5, GLUT-2

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12
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How are glucose and galactose absorbed?

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  • Absorption of glucose & galactose is by secondary active transport
    Carrier protein = SGLT-1 on apical membrane.
  • SGLT1 can transport glucose uphill against its concentration gradient (so effective when glucose at levels in the lumen are below those in the enterocyte)
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How is fructose absorbed?

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  • Absorption of fructose is by facilitated diffusion
  • Carrier protein = GLUT-5 on apical membrane.
  • Effective at relatively low concentrations of fructose in the lumen as tissue and plasma levels are low
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How does glucose exit the enterocyte and enter the blood?

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  • Exit of glucose at the basolateral membrane is by facilitated diffusion. Carrier protein = GLUT-2, a high-capacity, low-affinity facilitative transporter.
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What % and volume of water is absorbed by the GI tract and how?
Which part of the GI tract absorbs the most water?

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  • 99%
  • It is absorbed by the action of ion absorption
  • Most water is absorbed in the small intestine (especially the jejunum)
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How are many ions absorbed and are Ca2+ and iron completely absorbed?

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Many ions absorbed slowly by passive diffusion and Ca2+ and iron are incompletely absorbed due to regulation.

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17
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How much water is absorbed by the small and large intestine?

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SI - 8L

LI - 1.4 (DAILY)

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Where does the water in the GI tract come from?

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  • Ingestion (2L)
  • Saliva (1.2L)
  • Gastric secretions (2L)
  • Bile (0.7L)
  • Pancreas (1.2L)
  • Intestine (2.4L)
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19
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What is the name of the process by which water is reasborbed?

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Standing gradient osmosis (driven by Na+)

20
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How does sodium enter enterocytes?

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Sodium gets into the cells via different methods depending on location of the enterocyte:

  • Proximal bowel uses counter transport for H+
  • Jejunum uses cotransport with amino acids, monosaccharides
  • Ileum uses cotransport with Cl-
  • Colon uses restricted movement through ion channels
  • Cl- is cotransported with Na+ in the ileum and exchanged with HCO3- in the colon
21
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Describe the standing gradient osmosis

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High intracellular sodium is controlled by:

  • Active transport of Na+ into lateral intercellular spaces by Na+/K+ATPase
  • Cl- and HCO3- transports into the intercellular space by electrochemical gradient of Na+
  • High concentration of ions in intercellular spaces (hypertonic)
  • Osmotic flow of water from the gut lumen via adjacent cells, tight junctions into the intercellular space
  • Water distends the intercellular channels and causes increased hydrostatic pressure
  • Ions and water move across the basement membrane of the epithelium and are carried away by the capillaries
22
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Calcium absorption - where does majority occur, what does a calcium deficiency do to absorption, what stimulates its absorption, how much is absorbed daily, and at rest what are the relative concentration of intra and extracellular calcium?

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  • Most absorption of calcium occurs in the duodenum and ileum
  • A calcium deficiency increases the gut’s ability to absorb calcium
  • Vitamin D and parathyroid hormone stimulate absorption of calcium
  • Even though we ingest 1-6g of calcium a day, we only absorb about 0.7g of it
  • This is because it is regulated
  • At rest, there is a low (nm) intracellular concentration and a high (micromole) extracellular concentration
23
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How is calcium transported across the apical membrane?

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Absorption via 2 types of transporter:

  1. Facilitated diffusion – IMcal (intestinal calcium binding protein)
  2. Ion channel
24
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How is calcium transported whilst maintaining low intracellular concentrations (because it is a signalling molecule)?

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  • Binds to calbindin in cytosol to make it inactive
  • Calcium pumped out of basolateral surface by:
    Ca2+ATPase (PMCA)
  • PMCA has a high affinity but low capacity
  • Maintains the low intracellular concentration.
  • It is also pumped out by Na+/Ca2+ exchanger against its concentration gradient
  • It has a low affinity but high capacity so needs larger concentrations of calcium to be effective (hence it works before the PMCA to reduced the large calcium amounts)
25
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What is vitamin D important for and what does a deficiency cause?

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  • needed for calcium absorption

- causes rickets or osteoporosis

26
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How is vitamin D taken up and what are its functions?

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Taken up by enterocytes

Functions to:

  • Enhance transport of Ca2+ through cytosol
  • Increase level of calbindin
  • Increase number of Ca2+ATPase in membrane for faster extrusion from cell
27
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What is iron needed for?

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Oxygen transport (in haem) and oxidative phosphorylation (ETC)

28
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Why must uptake of iron be regulated?

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Iron in excess is toxic but there is no mechanism for excreting iron.
Iron is necessary so must be absorbed fast but limited too.

29
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How much iron do adults ingest and absorb daily?

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15-20mg

Absorb 0.5-1.5mg

30
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How is iron present in the diet (as what)?

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a) inorganic iron (Fe3+ ferric, Fe2+ ferrous)

b) as part of heme (haem) group (haemoglobin, myoglobin and cytochromes)

31
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Can we absorb Fe3+ or Fe2+?

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Fe2+

32
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How is Fe3+ absorbed then?

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  • Fe3+ forms insoluble salts with (e.g. hydroxide, phosphate, bicarbonate)
  • Vitamin C reduction from Fe3+ to Fe2+
33
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How is iron as part of haem absorbed?

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We absorb this intact into the enterocyte via haem carrier protein 1 (HCP-1) which endocytoses via receptor mediated endocytosis. Fe2+ is then liberated by haem oxygenases

34
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How does iron enter the blood?

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  • Ferric enters the blood via ferroportin (FP)
  • Hephaestin (HP) is a copper dependant ferroxidase that converts Fe2+ to Fe3+ on the basolateral side
  • Fe3+ binds to apotransferrin and travels in blood as transferrin (TF)
  • Hepcidin supresses FP
35
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How does iron get from the duodenum lumen into enterocytes?

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Duodenal cytochrome B (Dcytb- a membrane enzyme) catalyzes the reduction of Fe3+ to Fe2+
Fe2+ transported into cytosol via divalent metal transporter 1 (DMT-1), a H+-coupled co-transporter.

Haem can bind to haem carrier protein 1 (HCP-1) which endocytoses via receptor mediated endocytosis. Fe2+ is then liberated by haem oxygenases

Fe2+ binds to unknown factors, carried to basolateral membrane, moves via ferroportin ion channel into blood.

36
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How are iron ions stored in ferritin?

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  • Iron can bind to apoferritin in cytosol to form ferritin micelle
  • Ferritin is a blobular protein complex (each can store 400 iron ions)
  • Fe2+ then oxidises to Fe3+ which creates a protein shell.
  • The micelle is lost when the enterocytes are shunted off the tip of the villi and excreted
  • Irreversible binding of iron to ferritin in the epithelial cells
  • Iron/Ferritin is not available for transport into plasma
  • Iron/Ferritin is lost in the intestinal lumen and excreted in the faeces
  • Increase in iron concentration in the cytosol increases ferritin synthesis
37
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What are vitamins?

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Organic compounds that cannot be manufactured by the body but are vital to metabolism.

38
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How are vitamins absorbed mainly?

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Passive diffusion

39
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How are vitamin A, D, E, K uptaken?

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Fat soluble vitamins (e.g. A, D, E, K) are transported to the brush border by micelles while K is actively taken up

40
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How are vitamin C, B12, B1 and folic acid taken up?

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By specific transport mechanisms

41
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Vitamin B12 - where is it stored and what does impaired absorption lead to?

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  • Liver contains a large store (2-5mg)

- Retards the maturation of RBCs = pernicious anaemia

42
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Vitamin B12 release from food and transport to duodenum

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  • Most Vitamin B12 is bound to proteins in food
  • Stomach low pH and pepsin releases B12 from food but the B12 is easily denatured by HCl
  • B12 therefore binds to R protein (haptocorrin) which is released by parietal cells and in saliva
  • R proteins are then digested in the duodenum
43
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How does vit B12 resist digestion in the SI and how does it get into the blood?

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  • B12 binds to Intrinsic Factor (IF) secreted by parietal cells
  • IF is resistant to digestion.
  • B12/IF complex binds to cubulin (cub) receptor in distal ileum and is endocytosed (possibly by receptor mediated methods)
  • B12/IF complex broken down in mitochondria, B12 binds to transcobalamin II (TCII) and travels to liver in the blood
44
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How does vitamin B12 bound to TCll enter the liver?

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  • TCII receptors on the liver allow uptake of complex.

- Proteolysis then breaks down the TCII inside the cell

45
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How does K+ diffuse in the SI and colon?

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K+ diffuses in paracellularly in the small intestine and out in the colon

46
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Is iron in haem or the inorgnaic ion more readily absorbed?

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Haem - 20% absorbed

Inorganic - 5%

Alimentary system (14 decks)

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