Lecture 7: Digestion and Absorption of Vitamins and Minerals Flashcards
What forms do dietary lipids come in?
Triglycerides, cholesterol, phospholipids
How are lipids provided in the diet for domestic animals?
Oils of vegetable or marine origin, animal fats
What animal fat is tallow
Beef
What animal fat is lard
Pork
What fat is grease
From restaurants
What is the structure of triglycerides
Glycerol + 3 fatty acids
Lipids must be ______ in the SI for digestion and absorption
Solubilized
What part of the GIT initiates enzymatic digestion of lipids?
Stomach
What is the purpose of churning lipids in the stomach?
Breaks lipids into small droplets and increases SA
What hydrolyzes ~10% of ingested TAG?
Gastric lipase
What does TAG turn into when hydrolyzed by gastric lipase?
Glycerol and FFAs
Stomach __________ chyme into SI
slowly empties
Why does the stomach slowly empty chyme into the SI?
In order to allow time for pancreatic lipase to digest
What emulsifies lipids in the SI?
Bile salts
What is the purpose of bile salts emulsifying lipids?
Surround small lipid droplets to increase SA
__________ enzymes digest different lipids
Pancreatic
What are examples of pancreatic enzymes that digest different lipids?
Lipase, colipase, cholerstol ester hydrolase, phospholipase A2
______ binds to lipase and allows it to digest at lipid-water interface
Colipase
What hydrolyzes cholesterol ester
Cholesterol ester hydrolase
What happens to cholesterol ester when hydrolyzed by cholesterol ester hydrolase?
Free cholesterol + FA + releases glycerol from triglycerides
What is phospholipase A2 activated by?
Trypsin
What hydrolyzes phospholipids?
Phospholipase A2
What is the result when phospholipids hydrolyzed by phospholipase A2?
Iysolecithin + FA
Final hydrolyzed products must now be solubilized in _____ for absorption
Micelles
Bile salts solubilize products within SI lumen as _____ (except)
Micelles; except glycerol
Micelles diffuse to brush-border membrane of ______
Enterocyte
When micelles diffuse to brush-border membrane of enterocyte, products ______________ into cell
Release and diffuse
T/F: Bile salts do not diffuse in enterocyte
True
Products released and diffused into the enterocyte are then _______
Re-esterified to form original compounds