Module 6: Accessory Digestive Glands: Gallbladder and Pancreas

Question 1

Gallbladder

Answer 1

sac that stores 100mL of bile produced by liver
Walls have many folds
Lined by columnar epithelium with short microvilli

Question 2

Bile travels from liver to gallbladder via

Answer 2

common hepatic duct

Question 3

Exocrine portion of pancreas

Answer 3

majority of gland

Secretes alkaline enzyme fluid into pancreatic duct (then transported to duodenum)

Question 4

type of exocrine glands in pancreas

Answer 4

compound acinar gland
Each acinus has protein secreting granules
Fluid leaves acini through INTRAlobular ducts lined by cuboidal epithelium
Ducts drain into larger excretory INTERlobular ducts lined iwht stratified cuboidal epithelium

Question 5

Exocrine pancreas secretions are controlled by

Answer 5

secretin, CCK and gastrin

Then are activated in the duodenum by enterokinase released by intestinal mucosa