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Lecture 6 - Metabolism Flashcards

1
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What are the foods and their percentages used by the body?

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Carbohydrates (50% of American dietary calories)

Proteins (11-14%)

Lipids

Cholosterol

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What is the only food that can move through the intestinal mucosa in its native state?

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Cholesterol

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What are the four main functions of the Digestive System?

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  1. Motility
  2. Secretion
  3. Digestion
  4. Absorption
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What is Motility?

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Movement through the Digestive Tract

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What is Secretion?

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Release of enzymes, hormones and other substances that help the body digest food.

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What is Digestion?

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Breaking down the food into smaller components so it is able to cross the plasma membrane

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What is Absorption?

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Transfering the nutrient to the blood or lymph system

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What is a Herbivore?

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An animal that only eats plants (Deer)

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What is a Carnivore?

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An animal that only eats meat (Lion)

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What is an Omnivore?

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An animal that eats both plants and meat

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What are the two types of herbivores?

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  1. Ruminants
  2. Simple Stomach Herbivores
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What is different about Ruminants compared to Simple Stomach Herbivores?

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Ruminants are able to absorb FA and microbiota as they have a large intestine while SS herbivores cat use fermentation as they do not have a large intestine

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What Is a Ruminants stomach like?

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As ruminants, cows have a four-chamber stomach designed to break down parts of plants that humans, with our single-chamber stomachs, can’t. Each chamber in the ruminant stomach has a distinct function: The rumen is a 55-gallon chamber where a cow’s gut bacteria begin the process of digestion.

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What are the two types of Digestion in animals?

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1.) Enzymatic Digestion

2.) Microbial Digestion: Fermentation

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What is the Digestion in Carnivores mostly?

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Enzymatic

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What is the Digestion in Herbivores and Omnivores?

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Enzymatic and Microbial

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What is the consequence of enzymatic and mcirobiotal digestion in SS herbivores and ruminants?

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Reversed

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18
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What are polysaccharides?

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Starch: complex carbohydrate

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What are Disaccharides?

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Maltose, Sucrose, Lactose

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What are Monosacchardies?

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Glucose, Galactose, Fructose

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What are most carbs ingested as?

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Starches

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What is the most commonly digested sugar?

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Sucrose (table sugar) and lactose (milk)

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What does amylase do?

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Takes starch (polysaccharide) and convert it into disaccharide

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24
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What are some brush border enzymes?

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Dextrinase, Glucoamylasse, Lactase, Maltase, Sucrase

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What do the BB enzymes do?

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They convert the disaccharide into a monosaccharide

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What does a-dextrinase do?

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Targets small polymers of glucose into multiple molecules of glucose

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27
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What happens when we chew food?

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It mixes our food with our salivary secretions that contains ptylalin (a-amylase)

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What does ptyalin do?

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Hydrolyze starch into maltose and other glucose polymers (30-40%) in the mouth and stomach

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What happens to the salivary amylase?

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Because people do not chew their food for very long periods of time. the salivary amylase turns inactive by the stomach pH and the rest of the complex carb gets digested by the pancreatic amylase

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What do pancreatic secretions contain?

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Large amounts of amylase

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What is pancreatic amylase?

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Is more potent then salivary amylase

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Where do carbohydrates get hydrolyzed?

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In the small Intestine (duodenum)

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33
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What happens within 30 minutes of carbohydrate digestion?

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All carbohydrates will be hydrolyzed into maltose (and other glucose polymers) in the duodenum and jejunum

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What is an overview of the Digestion of Carbohydrates?

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Salivary amylase starts in the mouth, gets inactivated in stomach, pancreatic amylase begins to start in the stomach, Brush border enzymes in the small intestine turn the starch into monosaccharides

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What happens to disaccharides?

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Sucrose, lactose and maltose get broken down by brush border enzymes: lactase, sucrase and maltase

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What happens to the monosaccharides that are formed?

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Internalized by the absorptive cell and and diffuse out into the intestinal villi (go into small small intestine, diffuse into microvilli)

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What is the solubility of a monosaccharides?

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Water-soluble, therefore absorb right into the blood stream

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38
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What is the typical breakdown product?

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80% glucose
10% fructose
10% galactose

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What happens to the blood leaving the villi of the small intestine?

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It drains into blood vessels leading to the hepatic portal system (liver)

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40
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What is the blood leaving the villi like?

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Rich in nutrients

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41
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Where can this blood go?

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Tthe general circulation system

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42
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What happens to blood viscosity?

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It can be increased which can have an effect on blood pressure

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43
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What is the first pass effect?

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As the blood passes through the vessels of the liver, much of the nutrient loaf is removed

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What are the stages of the Hepatic Portal System?

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1.) SI absorbs the products of digestion

2.) Nutrient molecules travel to hepatic portal vein to liver

3.) Liver monitors blood content

3.) Blood enters general circulation by hepatic vein

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45
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What is Glucose?

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An essential nutrient for energy production

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46
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What happens with excess glucose?

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Glucose can be converted into glycogen and stored in the liver

47
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What happens to glucose in the blood stream?

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Insulin is released by the pancreas (islet of langerham), insulin binds to cell surface receptors, trigger glucose uptake by facilitated diffusion

48
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What does a “high” Glycemic index mean?

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They can make your blood sugars rise

49
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What is a low GI?

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Less than 55

50
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What is a medium glycemic index?

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Between 55 - 69

51
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What is high GI?

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Greater then 70

52
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What happens during low GI foods?

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Your blood sugar rises, but your insulin keeps up

53
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What happens during high GI foods?

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Your blood sugar rapidly rises, and then your blood sugar crashes and the insulin tries to keep uo

54
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What was the findings of the mice with a high GI?

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They had 2x more body fat then the mice on a low glycemic diet

55
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What are the stages of insulin resistance?

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High fat diet –> high blood glucose
—> constant high insulin levels –> insulin receptors become resistance –> glucose not being absorbed –> insatiable hunger and cravings

56
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What does a low carb diet and insulin do?

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Low Carb Diet –> decreasing insulin levels –> fat burn –> weight loss

57
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What is ozempic?

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It is a GLP1 (glucagon like peptide 1) receptor agonist

58
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What does a GP1 receptor do in your brain?

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Decreases appetite

59
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What does it do in your pancreas?

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Increase insulin

60
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What does it do in your stomach?

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Decrease gastric motility and emptying

61
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What are some benefits of GLP1 receptors?

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  • Weight loss
  • Decrease in CV disease
  • Type 2 Diabetes
  • Better insulin and glucose control
62
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What are some negatives of GLP1 receptors?

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  • Hypoglycemia
  • lifelong problems of the GI tract
  • Thyroid tumours
63
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What are examples of cholesterol?

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  • Yolks, butter, milk, creek, meat
64
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How is cholesterol absorbed?

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Without digestion

65
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How much blood cholesterol comes from the liver?

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85%

66
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How much blood cholesterol comes from our diet?

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15%

67
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How is cholesterol transported in the blood?

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Associated with lipoproteins

68
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What is cholesterol a major component of

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Cell membranes

69
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What is cholesterol the base substrate for?

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Steroid Hormone synthesis

70
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What are the major types of fats?

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  1. Triglycerides
  2. Phospholipids
  3. Sterols
71
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Where does a small amount of fat digestion occur?

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In the stomach

72
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What are triglycerides digested by?

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Lingual lipase swelled with saliva which accounts for about 10% of fat digestion

73
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What is the problem with lipids not being water-soluble?

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The enzymes can not get to them

74
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What do enzymes in solution have?

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Only limited access to the insoluble lipid

75
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What do bile salts do?

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Help lipid digestion by emulsifying them (breaking them into small droplets)

76
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What do bile salts help with

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The effect of greatly enhancing access of the lipase to lipid molecules

77
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What are the enzymes that digest triglycerides and phospholipids?

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Lipase - only present in pancreatic juices

78
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Where can lipid digestion only occur?

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In the small intestine (following emulsification of bile)

79
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What do triglycerides get digested by?

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Pancreatic lipase

80
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What does pancreatic juice contain?

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An enormous amount of pancreatic lipase

81
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What does pancreatic lipase do?

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Splits the triglyceride into free fatty acids and monoglyceride

82
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Where do the products of triglycerides go?

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Diffuse into the absorptive cells

83
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What do these Absorptive Cells do?

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Re-synthesize tryglcerides from monoglycerides and fatty acids and leave the cells by exocytosis and enter the lacteals of the villi

84
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What are chyomicrons secreted into?

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The lacteals of the villi, passing through the lymphatic system until they reach the bloodstream through the thoracic duct

85
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What do the chylomicrons add in the blood?

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ApoE protein

86
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What does ApoE protein do?

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Helps bind to the capillaries in the target muscles and adipose tissue

87
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How are the chylomicrons digested?

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In target tissues by lipoprotein lipase, releasing the fatty acids - used by skeletal muscles for energy

88
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What happens after the triglyceride is broken up

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The depleted chylomicron particle goes back through circulation into the liver

89
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What are proteins?

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Chains of amino acids

90
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How does protein digestion occur?

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Via proteases produce large polypeptides (shorter chains of AA)

91
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How does digestion of large polypeptides occur?

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Via peptidases which produces smaller amino acids

92
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What do the BB enzymes peptidases do?

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Covert small polypeptides into amino acids

93
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What is the important proteinase in the stomach?

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Pepsin (functions at a pH of 2 - 3, inhibited at pH greater then 5)

94
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What is pepsin one of the only enzymes capable of?

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Digesting collagen

95
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What are the pancreatic proteolytic enzymes?

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Trypsin

Chymotrypsin

Carboxypeptidase

Proelastate

96
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What are Enterocytes?

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Contain other peptidases that are specific for linkages between amino acids

97
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What do endopeptidases do?

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Cleave internal bonds

98
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What do exopeptidase do?

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Cleave off the ends

99
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What are 99% of final protein products?

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Single amino acids that pass into the blood stream

100
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What are AA’s transported into absorptive cells by?

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Transport Proteins (carrier-mediated transport)

101
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What are peptides digested by?

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Brush Border Peptidases - the AAs fired are transported by a transporter associated with the enzyme into the absorptive cell

102
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What do transport proteins do?

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Carry the AAs out of the absorptive cells to the capillaries of the villi

103
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Can AAs be stored?

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No - expect for components of cell protein

104
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What is the amine unit of the AA?

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Removed to make urea, remaining part of molecule is converted into a lipid

105
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What is urea excreted as?

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A component of urine

106
Q

What are calcium ions for?

A

Active absorption in blood

107
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What does your parathyroid hormone do?

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Activates Vitamin D - enhances calcium absorption

108
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What are iron ions important for?

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Formation of Hb

109
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What are K+., Mg2+, phosphates important for?

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Direct absorption through the intestinal mucosa

110
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Where does vitamin absorption occur?

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Mainly by the passive process of diffusion in the jenumim and ileum

111
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What are fat soluble vitamins absorbed with?

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Dietary Lipids (Vitamins A, E, D, K)

112
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What do water soluble vitamins (B1 thiamine, B2 riboflavin, B2 niacin) do?

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Diffuse into blood (all expect B12)

113
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What does B12 do?

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Combine with intrinsic factor produced by the stomach

114
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What do water soluble vitamins do?

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Pass into urine when their concentration in palms exceeds the renal capacity for reabsorption

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