Lecture 10-Digestive Glands Flashcards
Digestive glands
-General functions?
Lubricative, protective, digestive, and absorptive functions
Digestive gland functions are mediated by?
Their secretory products released into the oral cavity and duodenum
3 major digestive glands?
- Salivary (parotid, submandibular, and sublingual)
- Exocrine pancreas
- Liver (gallbladder)
Exocrine glands are glands that?
secrete their products into ducts
Classification of exocrine glands
-Structure?
- simple-unbranched
- compound-branched
Classification of exocrine glands
-Structure of the secretory unit?
- Tubular
- Alveolar (acinar)
Classification of exocrine glands
-Secretory product?
Mucus or serous (watery fluid with zymogen/proenzyme granules)
Classification of exocrine glands
-3 secretory mechanisms?
- Merocrine
- Holocrine
- Apocrine
Classification of exocrine glands
-Secretory mechanism-merocrine?
Exocytosis
Classification of exocrine glands
-Secretory mechanism-Holocrine?
Whole cell
Classification of exocrine glands
-Secretory mechanism-Apocrine?
Gland releases its product together with a small amount of the apical cytoplasm of the secretory cell
Major salivary glands
-Classified as?
Branched tubuloalveolar glands
Major salivary glands
-Excretory ducts open into?
The oral cavity
Saliva contains 5 components?
- Proteins
- Glycoproteins (mucus)
- Ions
- Water
- IgA
Submadibular gland
-produces?
Most of the saliva
Parotid gland
-produces? Rich in?
Some saliva-amylase rich
Production of saliva is under the control of?
The ANS
Striated duct
- This epithelium is involved in?
- Well developed in which glands?
- Transport of ions and water
- Well developed in submandibular and parotid glands
Protective function
-3 constituents of saliva and their functions?
- Lysozyme-attacks bacteria
- Lactoferrin-chelates iron necessary for bacterial growth
- IgA-neutralizes pathogens
Digestive function
-relies on?
- Amylase-initiates digestion of carbs
- Lingual lipase-hydrolysis of dietary lipids
Slide 10?
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Salivary glands
-Parotid?
Exclusively serous acini
Salivary glands
-Sublingual gland?
- Mixed serous and mucus
- Mucus acini predominate
Salivary glands
-Submandibular gland?
- Mixed serous and mucus
- Serous demilunes
- Pure mucus acini rare
Parotid gland
-Enzymes?
Amylase, peroxidase, lysozyme
Parotid gland-Clinical significance
-primary target of?
The rabies and mumps viruses-transmitted in saliva containing the virus
The mumps virus causes?
Transient swelling of the parotid gland and confers immunity (can’t get it again)
Two complications of mumps?
Orchitis and meningitis
Bilateral orchitis caused by the mumps virus can result in?
Sterility
Parotid gland-most frequent site for slow growing benign salivary gland tumors
-Surgical removal is complicated by?
The location of the facial nerve
Submandibular glands
-Mucus cells secrete?
- 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
Sublingual gland
-2 types of cells?
- Serous and mucous cells
- Most secretory units are mucous
Exocrine pancreas-the pancreas is a combined endocrine and exocrine gland
-Endocrine component?
Islet of Langerhans (represents only 2% of pancreas volume)
The main function of the endocrine pancreas?
Regulation of glucose metabolism by hormones secreted into the bloodstream
The functional histologic unit of the exocrine pancreas?
Acinus
Initiation of the secretory-excretory duct system?
Lumen of the acinus
Lumen of the acinus contains?
Centroacinar cells (unique to the pancreas)
Centroacinar cells are continuous with the low cuboidal epithelial lining of the intercalated duct
-Exocrine pancreas lacks?
Striated ducts and myoepithelial cells