Lecture 10-Digestive Glands Flashcards

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Digestive glands

-General functions?

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Lubricative, protective, digestive, and absorptive functions

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Digestive gland functions are mediated by?

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Their secretory products released into the oral cavity and duodenum

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3 major digestive glands?

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  • Salivary (parotid, submandibular, and sublingual)
  • Exocrine pancreas
  • Liver (gallbladder)
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Exocrine glands are glands that?

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secrete their products into ducts

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Classification of exocrine glands

-Structure?

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  • simple-unbranched

- compound-branched

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Classification of exocrine glands

-Structure of the secretory unit?

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  • Tubular

- Alveolar (acinar)

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Classification of exocrine glands

-Secretory product?

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Mucus or serous (watery fluid with zymogen/proenzyme granules)

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Classification of exocrine glands

-3 secretory mechanisms?

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  • Merocrine
  • Holocrine
  • Apocrine
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Classification of exocrine glands

-Secretory mechanism-merocrine?

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Exocytosis

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Classification of exocrine glands

-Secretory mechanism-Holocrine?

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Whole cell

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Classification of exocrine glands

-Secretory mechanism-Apocrine?

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Gland releases its product together with a small amount of the apical cytoplasm of the secretory cell

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Major salivary glands

-Classified as?

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Branched tubuloalveolar glands

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Major salivary glands

-Excretory ducts open into?

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The oral cavity

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Saliva contains 5 components?

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  • Proteins
  • Glycoproteins (mucus)
  • Ions
  • Water
  • IgA
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Submadibular gland

-produces?

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Most of the saliva

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Parotid gland

-produces? Rich in?

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Some saliva-amylase rich

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Production of saliva is under the control of?

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The ANS

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Striated duct

  • This epithelium is involved in?
  • Well developed in which glands?
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  • Transport of ions and water

- Well developed in submandibular and parotid glands

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Protective function

-3 constituents of saliva and their functions?

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  • Lysozyme-attacks bacteria
  • Lactoferrin-chelates iron necessary for bacterial growth
  • IgA-neutralizes pathogens
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Digestive function

-relies on?

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  • Amylase-initiates digestion of carbs

- Lingual lipase-hydrolysis of dietary lipids

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Slide 10?

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?

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Salivary glands

-Parotid?

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Exclusively serous acini

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Salivary glands

-Sublingual gland?

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  • Mixed serous and mucus

- Mucus acini predominate

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Salivary glands

-Submandibular gland?

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  • Mixed serous and mucus
  • Serous demilunes
  • Pure mucus acini rare
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Parotid gland

-Enzymes?

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Amylase, peroxidase, lysozyme

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Parotid gland-Clinical significance

-primary target of?

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The rabies and mumps viruses-transmitted in saliva containing the virus

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The mumps virus causes?

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Transient swelling of the parotid gland and confers immunity (can’t get it again)

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Two complications of mumps?

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Orchitis and meningitis

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Bilateral orchitis caused by the mumps virus can result in?

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Sterility

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Parotid gland-most frequent site for slow growing benign salivary gland tumors
-Surgical removal is complicated by?

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The location of the facial nerve

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Submandibular glands

-Mucus cells secrete?

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  • Mucus cells secrete mucin which aids in the lubrication of the food bolus as it travels through the esophagus
  • In addition, the serous cells produce salivary amylase-aids in the breakdown of starches
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Sublingual gland

-2 types of cells?

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  • Serous and mucous cells

- Most secretory units are mucous

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Exocrine pancreas-the pancreas is a combined endocrine and exocrine gland
-Endocrine component?

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Islet of Langerhans (represents only 2% of pancreas volume)

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The main function of the endocrine pancreas?

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Regulation of glucose metabolism by hormones secreted into the bloodstream

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The functional histologic unit of the exocrine pancreas?

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Acinus

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Initiation of the secretory-excretory duct system?

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Lumen of the acinus

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Lumen of the acinus contains?

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Centroacinar cells (unique to the pancreas)

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Centroacinar cells are continuous with the low cuboidal epithelial lining of the intercalated duct
-Exocrine pancreas lacks?

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Striated ducts and myoepithelial cells

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Intercalated ducts converge to form?

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Interlobular ducts

-lined by a columnar epithelium with a few goblet cells and occasional enteroendocrine cells

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Centroacinar cells

  • Function?
  • Stimulated by?
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  • Secrete aqueous bicarbonate sol’n

- Stimulated by the hormone secretin

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CCK

  • Binds to?
  • Function?
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Binds to specific receptors of acinar cells and stimulates the release of zymogen

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Acinar pancreatic cells secrete the inactive forms of what enzymes?

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Trypsin, chymotrypsin, and carboxylpeptidase

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An increase in the synthesis of proteases is associated with?

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A protein-rich diet

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An increase in the synthesis of amylases and a decrease in the synthesis of proteases is often associated with?

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A carb-rich diet

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Amylase gene expression is regulated by what hormone?

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Insulin (internal circulation within the pancreas (insuloacinar portal system) is functionally very important)

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Acute pancreatitis

-Pathology?

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-Premature activation of pancreatic enzymes (trypsinogen to trypsin) and inactivation of trypsin inhibitor result in autodigestion of pancreatic acini

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Acute pancreatitis

-Usually follows?

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Heavy meals or excessive alcohol ingestion

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Acute pancreatitis

-Clinical signs?

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  • SEVERE abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting

- Rapid elevation of amylase and lipase in serum (within 24-72 hrs)

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Liver

-Blood is supplied to the liver by?

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  • Portal vein to be filtered

- Hepatic artery-supplies hepatic tissue

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Liver
-Blood from branches of the portal vein and the hepatic artery mixes in the sinusoids of the liver lobules and converges at the?

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Central venule of the liver lobule

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Liver

-Central venules converge to form?

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Sublobular veins and blood returns to the IVC

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Structural and functional unit of the liver?

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Hepatic lobule

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Hepatic lobule

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  • Consists of anastomosing plates of hepatocytes limiting blood sinusoidal spaces
  • A central venule in the core of the hepatic lobule collects the sinusoidal blood containing a mixture of blood supplied by the portal vein and hepatic artery
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The liver lobule can be conceptualized as?

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  • Classic hepatic lobule
  • Portal lobule
  • Liver acinus
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Classic hepatic lobule

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  • Hexagonal lobule
  • Surrounding a central vein
  • Portal triads at the angles
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Portal lobule

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  • Triangular arrangement
  • Center of the triangle is bile duct collecting from 3 hepatic lobules
  • Angles are the central veins of three hepatic lobules
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Liver acinus

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  • Based on the oxygen gradient of venous sinusoids of adjacent lobules
  • Divided into 3 zones based on the blood supply to the hepatocytes from the branch of the hepatic artery
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Liver acinus

-The direction of arterial flow determines a?

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The direction of arterial flow determines a metabolic gradient from the periportal space near the portal triad (zone I) to the zone of drainage (zone III)

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Microscopic structure of lobule?

-Mostly made up of what type of cell?

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Mostly made up of hepatocytes arranged in thin layers that radiate from the central canal vein to the periphery of the lobule

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Microscopic structure of lobule?

-Between the radiating rows of hepatocytes?

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Small blood vessels called sinusoids

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Microscopic structure of lobule?

-Sinusoids receive?

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  • Oxygen rich blood from the hepatic artery and nutrients from the the intestines via the portal vein
  • The oxygen and nutrients diffuse through the capillary walls into the liver cells
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Microscopic structure of lobule?

-Within the sinusoids?

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Specialized macrophages called Kupffer cells

-Involved in the recycling of old RBCs

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Microscopic structure of lobule?

-At the corner of each lobule?

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At the corner of each lobule is the portal triad, composed of branches of the hepatic portal vein, hepatic artery, bile duct and nerve

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Microscopic structure of lobule?

-Bile drains from?

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-Bile drains from the hepatocytes by the many small bile ducts that unite to form the main bile duct of the liver, the hepatic duct

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The hepatic duct joins with the?

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Cystic duct (coming from gall bladder) to form the common bile duct, which drains into the duodenum

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The endothelium which lines liver sinusoids

-Characteristics?

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  • Fenestrated

- Lacks a continuous basement membrane (discontinuous capillaries)

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The space between the fenestrated endothelium and the cords is called?

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The space of Disse

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Space of Disse

-The fenestrations permit blood plasma to?

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wash freely over the exposed surfaces of the hepatocytes through the space of Disse

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Space of Disse

-Microvilli of hepatocytes extend into this space, allowing?

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Microvilli of hepatocytes extend into this space, allowing proteins and other plasma components from the sinusoids to be absorbed by the hepatocytes

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Bile canaliculus

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Hepatocytes secrete bile

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Ito cells

  • What are they?
  • Where are they located?
  • Function?
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  • Stellate cells of the liver
  • Located at intervals within the space of Disse
  • These cells function as storage sites for fat and vitamin A
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Bile

  • produced by?
  • pathway?
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  • Produced by hepatocytes
  • Flows in opposite direction to the blood
    • Transported through bile canaliculi into the canal of Hering then to the bile duct in the portal triad space
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Hepatocytes-Functional endocrine and exocrine cell of the liver
-Basolateral domain?

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  • Abundant microvilli extending into the space of Disse
  • Participates in the absorption of blood-borne substances (bili, peptide/steroid hormones, vitamin B12, substances to be detoxed)
  • Secretion of plasma proteins (albumin, fibrinogen, prothrombin, coag factors, c’ proteins)
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Hepatocytes

-Contain smooth ER associated with?

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Glycogen inclusions

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Hepatocytes

-4 Functions of the SER?

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  • Synthesis of cholesterol and bile salts
  • Conjugation of bili, steroids, drugs
  • Breakdown of glycogen into glucose
  • detox of lipid soluble drugs (phenobarbital)
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Hepatocytes

-Rough ER and golgi participate in?

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The synthesis and glycosylation of the secretory proteins indicated above

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Hepatocytes

-Peroxisomes-function?

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  • Prominent in hepatocytes

- generate hydrogen peroxidase (which is broken down into oxygen and water)

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Bile

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  • A mixture of organic and inorganic substances produced by the hepatocyte
  • Participates in the excretion of cholesterol, phospholipids, bile salts, conjugated bili, electrolytes
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Bile

-Fat absorption in the intestinal lumen depends on?

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the fat emulsifying function of bile salts

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Bile transports IgA to?

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The intestinal mucosa and inhibits bacterial growth in the small intestine

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The secretion of bile into the bile canaliculus is an ATP mediated process involving?

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  • Multidrug resistance 1 and 2 transporters
  • Multispecific organ anionic transporter
  • Biliary acid transporter
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Metabolism of bilirubin

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Bili is the end product of heme catabolism-comes from old RBCs being destroyed in the spleen by macrophages

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Bilirubin formation?

-Macrophages convert heme into?

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Biliverdin–>unconjugated bili (in blood)–>forms complex with albumin–>hepatic sinusoids–>albumin detaches–>bili is internalized by hepatocyte

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Alcoholism and fatty liver

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  • Hepatocytes participate in the metabolism of ethanol
  • Long term consumption of ethanol results in fatty liver
  • Reversible process if alcohol ingestion discontinued
  • Cirrhosis
  • Hepatocellular carcinoma
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Cirrhosis

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-collagen proliferation of fibrosis of the liver

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Gallbladder

-Main functions?

A

Storage, concentration, and release of bile (into common bile duct then liver)

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Dilute bile from the hepatic ducts is transported through?

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The cystic duct into the gall bladder

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After concentration, what happens to bile?

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Bile is discharged into the common bile duct

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Gallstones

-What are they?

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  • Pieces of solid material that form in the gallbladder

- These stones develop because cholesterol and pigments in bile sometimes form hard particles

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Gallstones

-Two main types?

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  • Cholesterol stones

- Pigment stones

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Gallstones

-Cholesterol stones

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  • Usually yellow-green in color

- Most gallstones are cholesterol stones

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Gallstones

-Pigment stones?

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These stones are smaller and darker and are made up of bilirubin

93
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What type of cell predominates in the sublingual gland?

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Mucous cells

94
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What type of cell predominates in the submandibular gland?

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Serous cells

95
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What gland produces IgA?

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Parotid gland

96
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Serous demilunes

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Serous cells are located at the fundus of the acinus forming a crescent shaped structure embracing the mucus cells located closer to the opening of the acinus into the intercalated duct