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What are the different dietary carbohydrates?

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  1. Monosaccharides (monomers)
  2. Oligosaccharides (short polymers)
  3. Polysaccharides (long polymers)
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What can/can’t the small intestine directly absorb?

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  • Can directly abs monomers (monosaccharides)

- Cant directly abs polymers

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Where is dietary fibre primarily present in?

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Primarily present in fruits, vegetables and cereals

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Which forms of fibre does dietary fibre contain?

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Insoluble and soluble forms of fibre

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What are some characteristics of insoluble fibre?

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  • Non-water soluble
  • Not easily fermented
  • Cellulose and hemicellulose
  • Aids the digestive system and ease elimination
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What are some characteristics of soluble fibre?

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  • Water soluble
  • Pectins, gums and mucilage
  • Easily digested by bacteria in the colon
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Examples of soluble fibre?

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  • Oat bran
  • Barley
  • Nuts
  • Seeds
  • Beans
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Examples of insoluble fibre?

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  • Corn
  • Kidney beans
  • Turnips
  • Green beans
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What is starch?

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A storage form for carbohydrates that is primarily found in plants

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What does starch consist of?

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Amylose and amylopectin

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What is the linkage in amylose?

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a-1,4 linkages

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What is the linkage in amylopectin?

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a-1,4 and a-1,6 linkages

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What is the linkage in glycogen?

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a-1,4 and a-1,6 linkages but more highly branched

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What is amylose?

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A straight chain glc polymer that typically contains multiple glc residues

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What is amylopectin?

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A branched glc polymer

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Approx percentage of dietary carbohydrates that are disaccharides?

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30%-40%

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Approx percentage of dietary carbohydrates that are polysaccharides? (in the form of starch)

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Example of disaccharides?

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  • Sucrose
  • Lactose
  • Maltose
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Example of monosaccharides?

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  • Glucose
  • Fructose
  • Galactose
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Examples of polysaccharides?

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  • Glycogen
  • Starch
  • Cellulose (structural)
  • Chitin (structural)
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Approx percentage of dietary carbohydrates that are monosacchardies?

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Which monosaccharides join to form lactose (disaccharide)?

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Glucose + Galactose

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Which monosaccharides join to form maltose (disaccharide)?

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Glucose + Glucose

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Which monosaccharides join to form sucrose (disaccharide)?

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Glucose + Fructose

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What happens in the first step of the digestive process for dietary carbohydrates?
- Action of salivary amylase and pancreatic amylase - Salivary and pancreatic acinar cells synthesise and secrete active a amylases - Salivary amylase in the mouth initiates starch digestion, inactivated by gastric acid - Pancreatic a amylase (which is induced by CCK) completes starch digestion in the lumen on the SI
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What happens in the second step of the digestive process for dietary carbohydrates?
- Hydrolysis of oligosacc/ disacc to monosacc by brush-border hydrolytic enzymes - Human SI has membrane proteins: lactase, maltase and sucrase-isomaltase (two enzymes - sucrase and isomaltase) - Lactase breaks down lactose into glc and galactose - Isomaltase breaks bonds which cannot be broken by amylase or maltase
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What are the two steps of the digestive process for dietary carbohydrates?
1. Intraluminal hydrolysis - of starch to oligosacc by salivary and pancreatic amylases 2. Membrane digestion - of oligosacc to monosacc by brush-border disacc
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What's the action of sucrase?
- Cleaves the terminal a-1,4 linkages of maltose, maltotriose and a-limit dextrins - Can split sucrose into glc and frc
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What's the action of maltase?
- Cleaves the terminal a-1,4 linkages of maltose, maltotriose and a-limit dextrins - Can degrade the a-1,4 linkages in straight chain oligosacc to yield glc
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What's the action of isomaltase?
- Cleaves the terminal a-1,4 linkages of maltose, maltotriose and a-limit dextrins - The only enzyme that can split the branching a-1,6 linkages of a-limit dextrins
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Where does peak oligosacc dist and activity occur?
The proximal jejunum - Considerably less activity in the duodenum and distal ileum - None in LI
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How are glc, galactose and frc absorbed by the SI?
Two step process: 1. Uptake across the apical membrane into the epithelial cell 2. Exit across the basolateral membrane
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What is a-limit dextrin?
A short chain branched amylopectin remnant, prod by hydrolysis of amylopectin with a-amylase
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What are the 4 major pathways that dig-abs can occur?
1. Luminal proteases from stomach/ pancrase hydrolyse proteins to peptides and to aa, which are then abs 2. Luminal proteases digest proteins to peptides, but enzymes present at the brush border digest the peptides to aa, which are then aa 3. Luminal enzymes digset proteins to peptides, taken up as oligopeptides by enterocytes. Furhter dig of oligopeptides by cytosolic enzymes yields intracellular aa, moved by transporters across the basolateral memb into the blood 4. Luminal enzumes digest dietary proteins to oligopeptides, which are taken up by enterocytes and moved directly into the blood
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What are the 5 pancreatic enzymes that participate in protein digestion (but secreted as inactive proenzymes)
1. Trypsinogen 2. Chymotrypsinogen 3. Proelastase 4. Procarboxypeptidase A 5. Procarboxypeptidase B
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What is the activating agent for trypsinogen and what is its active form?
Act agent = Enterokinase | Act form = Trypsin
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What is the activating agent for chymotrypsinogen and what is its active form?
Act agent = Trypsin | Act form = Chymotrypsin
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What is the activating agent for proelastase and what is its active form?
Act agent = Trypsin | Act form = Elastase
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What is the activating agent for procarboxypeptidase A and what is its active form?
Act agent = Trypsin | Act form = Carboxypeptidase A
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What is the activating agent for procarboxypeptidase B and what is its active form?
Act agent = Trypsin | Act form = Carboxypeptidase B

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