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Lecture 24: INTRODUCTION AND MOTILITY Flashcards

1
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What are the functions of the GI tract?

A

To obtain nutrients required fo growth and energy needs. Also replace fluid and salts lost in urine, faeces, breathing and sweating

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What must be regulated?

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The conditions of the intestinal lumen

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3
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Where are receptors found?

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In the wall of the GI tract

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What do the receptors respond to?

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Stretch when food is in the lumen and change in composition

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What may change in composition be?

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pH, osmolarity, amino acids, sugars and fats

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6
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What are the effectors?

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Smooth muscle and glands

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7
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What do the receptors stimulate?

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Smooth muscle contractions and gland secretion

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8
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What regulates GI function?

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Nervous and hormonal

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9
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What does the CNS do?

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Coordinate activity over long distances fan modulate activity of the enteric nervous system

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10
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What does the parasympathetic nervous system do?

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Stimulate motility and secretion

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11
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What does the sympathetic nervous system do?

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Inhibit motility and secretion

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12
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What is the ENS made up of?

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Submucosal plexus and myenteric plexus

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13
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What does the submucosal plexus do?

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Regulate secretion

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14
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What does the myenteric plexus do?

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Regulate motility

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15
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What is the ENS involved in?

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Local reflexes (involuntary) such as peristalsis and segmentation

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16
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Where is the ENS?

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Total self contained in the GI tract

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17
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What is the largest endocrine organ in the body?

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GI tract

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18
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What function does the GI tract have?

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Endocrine (blood) and paracrine (localised)

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19
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What are critical hormones in the GI tract?

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Gastrin, gastric inhibitory peptide (GIP), secretin and cholecystokinin (CCK)

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20
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What are the functions of motility in the GI tract?

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Movement at a controlled rate, mechanical digestion, mixing and exposure to absorptive surfaces

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21
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What does movement at a controlled rate involve?

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Propulsion and storage

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22
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What does movement at a controlled rate aid?

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Chemical digestion and absorption

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23
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What does mechanical digestion do?

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Increases surface area

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24
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What is mechanical digestion essential for?

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Chemical digestion

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25
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What does mixing aid in?

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Chemical digestion

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26
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What does exposure to absorptive surfaces aid?

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Absorption

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27
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What is the basis of GI motility?

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Smooth muscle

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28
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What are the properties of smooth muscle?

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Spontaneously active (contracts without external input)

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29
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What is frequency of smooth muscle contraction regulated by?

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ENS

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30
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What is the frequency of contraction in the stomach?

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3/min

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31
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What is the frequency of contraction in the duodenum?

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12/min

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32
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What is the frequency of contraction in the ileum?

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9/min

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33
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What is the strength of contraction regulated by?

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Nervous and hormonal input (CNS)

34
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What is the motility pattern during fasting?

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Migrating motor complex

35
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When does the migrating motor complex happen?

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4 hours after a meal

36
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When does the migrating motor complex repeat?

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Every 2 hours until eat again

37
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What is the purpose of the migrating motor complex?

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Housekeeping (remove residual secretions and undigested materials)

38
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What are the motility patterns during feeding?

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Storage, propulsion and mixing

39
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Where does storage occur?

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Stomach and colon

40
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What does relaxation of smooth muscle allow?

A

Volume to increase without changing pressure

41
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Where does propulsion occur?

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Esophagus, stomach, small and large intestine

42
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What is propulsion known as?

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Peristalsis

43
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What happens in peristalsis?

A

Smooth muscle contracts behind the bolus and pushes it forward

44
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Where does mixing occur?

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Stomach, small and large intestine

45
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What is the mixing in the stomach?

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Retropulsion

46
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What is the mixing in the small and large intestine?

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Segmentation

47
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What happens in segmentation?

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Alternate patterns of contraction to push food together and apart (mix it)

48
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What is the purpose of chewing?

A

To reduce the size of food

49
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What does reducing the size of food do?

A

Allows injection and mixes food with saliva to allow taste

50
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Is chewing voluntary?

A

Yes, skeletal muscle of the jaw

51
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What about chewing is involuntary?

A

Strength, frequency and side

52
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What is swallowing?

A

Rapid transfer of material from mouth to stomach

53
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How is swallowing initiated?

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Voluntarily but proceeds reflexly

54
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Where does storage occur in the stomach?

A

Fundus and body

55
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Where does mechanical digestion occur in the stomach?

56
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Where does mixing occur in the stomach?

57
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How is there controlled delivery to the duodenum?

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By the pyloric sphincter

58
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What size does the stomach drink to when fasting?

59
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What does the migratory motor complex involve?

A

1 hour of inactivity, 50 min of uncoordinated activity and 10 min of coordinated activity

60
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What happens during feeding (storage)?

A

Receptive relaxation and gastric accommodation

61
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What is storage under regulation of?

A

Nervous (vagus nerve - parasympathetic)

62
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Where is peristalsis initiated in the stomach?

A

The greater curvature and spreads to the antrum

63
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How is peristalsis during the first 60 minutes after eating?

64
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How is peristalsis during 60-300 minutes after eating?

65
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What is retropulsion?

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A combination of peristalsis and closure of the pyloric sphincter causing food to collide and mix/break down

66
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What is gastric emptying a result of?

67
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What does the rate of gastric emptying match?

A

The digestive capacity of the intestine

68
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What is gastric emptying regulated by?

A

Feedback from duodenum

69
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What factors affect gastric emptying?

A

Size of meal -larger means faster emptying and composition of meal

70
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What empties faster?

A

Fluids faster than solids

71
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What are slow to digest?

A

Fats so slow gastric emptying

72
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What happens when there is fatty, hypertonic, acidic chyme in the duodenum?

A

Duodenal entero-endocrine cells secrete enterogastones (secretin and cholycystokinin) and the chemoreceptors and stretch receptors trigger the enterogastric reflex

73
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What happens in the enterogastric reflex?

A

Short reflex via enteric neurons and long reflex via CNS centres increases sympathetic activity and decreases parasympathetic activity

74
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What is the overall result of fats being in the duodenum?

A

Decreased contractile force and rate of emptying of the stomach

75
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What is the functions of small intestine motility?

A

Mixing with secretions from pancreas, biliary system (liver, gall bladder) and intestine, controlled movement and exposure of products of digestion to absorptive surfaces (epithelial cells)

76
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What is the motility pattern of small intestine after a meal?

A

Segmentation for mixing, exposure to absorptive surfaces and all movement. Limited peristalsis for movement in humans

77
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What does the colon store?

78
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What organ of the GI tract has large periods of inactivity?

A

Large intestine/colon

79
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What does segmentation in the large intestine do?

A

Exposure to absorptive surfaces and absorption of fluid and salt from faeces

80
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When does mass movement occur?

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1-2 times a day following meals

81
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How does mass movement occur?

A

A peristaltic wave

82
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What does a peristaltic wave do?

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Drives faeces into the rectum and initiates defecation

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