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Normal GI Flashcards

1
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What is segmentation?

A

using smooth muscle to squeeze apart food particles and mix them with surrounding material

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Where does segmentation take place?

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Small intestine

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What type of digestion is segmentation?

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Mechanical

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4
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What are the two types of nerve plexuses in the GI tract?

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Short (enteric)

Long (CNS involvement)

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What are the three layers of the mucosa?

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Epithelium
Lamina propria
Muscularis mucosae

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6
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What is found in the submucosa?

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Blood vessels, lymph, nerves

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7
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What does the submucosa do?

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Allows GI tract to expand

Differentiates parts of the small intestine

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8
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What is the makeup of the muscularis layer?

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2 layers

Inner circular, outer longitudinal

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9
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What are the four layers of the alimentary canal?

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Mucosa
Submucosa
Muscularis
Serosa or Adventitia

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10
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What determine if a layer will be covered by serosa or adventitia?

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Esophagus, rectal canal, parts of retroperitoneal are covered by adventitia- rest of structures by serosa

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11
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What are the two major intrinsic plexuses?

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Submucosal nerve plexus

Myenteric nerve plexus

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12
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What do salivary glands do?

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Clean mouth, taste, moisten food, chemical breakdown of starch (most are extrinsic)

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13
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What are intrinsic salivary glands?

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Buccal

Keep mouth moist

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14
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How are extrinsic salivary glands described?

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Paired, compound, tubuloalveolar glands

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15
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What are the three extrinsic salivary glands?

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Parotid glands
Submandibular glands
Sublingual glands

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16
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What are the two phases of deglutition?

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Buccal phase

Pharyngeal-esophageal phase

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17
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Where is the swallowing center located?

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Medulla and pons

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18
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What cell types if mainly found in the stomach in gastric pits?

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Goblet cells

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19
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What layer of the mucosa is scant in the stomach?

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Lamina

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20
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What type cell in the gastric gland cells produce intrinsic factor?

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Parietal cells

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21
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What do chief cells produce?

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Pepsin

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22
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What extra layer is added to the muscularis in the stomach?

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Inner oblique layer

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23
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What is the only enzymatic digestion that occurs in the stomach?

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Protein degradation

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24
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What is rennin

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Digests casein in infants

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25
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What is pepsin?

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Protein digesting enzyme

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26
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What does protein degradation denature?

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HCl

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27
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What does gastrin do?

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Stimtulates secretion of enzymes, HCl & other hormones

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28
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What are the three phases of gastric secretion?

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Cephalic (reflex)
Gastric
Intestinal

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29
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What triggers the cephalic phase in gastric secretion?

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Aroma, taste, sight or thought of food

Conditioned reflex

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30
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What does the cephalic phase of gastric secretion do?

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Prepares stomach for digestion

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31
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What happens during the gastric phase of gastric secretion?

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Distention- stimulates stretch receptors
Causes impulses to medulla along vagus
Gastrin stimulates HCl production

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32
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When does the intestinal phase of gastric secretion starts?

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When food enters small intestine

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33
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What is the excitatory subphase of intestinal secretion?

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Presence of acidic chyme in small intestine causes intestine to release gastrin- stimulates gastric glands to produce even more HCl

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34
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What are the two subphases of the intestinal phase?

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Excitatory subphase

Inhibitory subphase

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35
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What sets peristalic wave rate in the stomach?

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Pacemaker cells

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36
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How much chyme enters the small intestine at a time?

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3 ml

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37
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What are the three surface area modifications in the small intestine?

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Plicae circularis
Villi
Microvilli

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38
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What do the plicae circularis do/ where are they found?

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Slow chyme and mix with digestive juices
Cork-screwed shaped
Found in duodenum

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39
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What do the villi look like?

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Finger like projections

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40
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What is found in villli?

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Lamina propria
Capillary bed
lacteal (lymph cell for fat)

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41
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What is microvilli?

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Brush border (+ their enzymes) 
Increases surface area
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42
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Where are paneth cells found?

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interstinal crypts

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43
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What do Paneth cells do?

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Secrete lysozyme

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44
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What does bile do?

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Emulsifies fats- facilitates digestion (makes fat water soluble)

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45
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What works with the gallbladder to produce and store bile

46
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What are the three vessels at the portal triad?

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hepatic arteriole
portal venule
bile duct
(there will also be lymph)

47
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What is the main function of the hepatocytes?

48
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What do hepatocytes do with glucose?

A

Store and release it

49
Q

What other things does the liver store?

A

Fat-soluble vitamins

Amino acids

50
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what are the cells that are macrophages in liver sinusoids?

A

Kupffer’s Cells

51
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How is bilirubin formed?

A

From heme; happens in liver

52
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What happens to the bilirubin in the small intestine?

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Converted in small intestine to urobilinogen- brown pigment

53
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what do bile salts do?

A

Emulsify fats in small intestine (reabsorbed in ilium for resection)

54
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What layer of the alimentary canal is areolar tissues covered with mesothelium?

55
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What layer of the alimentary canal is fibrous connective tissue that blends with surrounding structure? What does it cover

A

Adventitia

Esophagus, rectal canal, parts of retroperitoneal

56
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What does the submucosal nerve plexus control?

A

Glands and secretions of submucosa

57
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What does the myenteric nerve plexus control?

A

Muscles of muscularis

58
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What is found in saliva?

A

Salivary amylas, lysozyme, IgA, metabolic wastes, mucin

59
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Does any absorption take place in the mouth, pharynx or esophagus?

60
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What enables chemical digestions in the mouth?

A

salivary amylase

61
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What are the four types of gastric gland cells?

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Mucous neck cells
Parietal cells
Chief cells
Enteroendocrine cells

62
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What is the purpose of the inhibitory subphase of the intestinal phase?

A

Protects small intestine from acidic chyme
Inhibition of gastric gland secretion
Pyloric sphincter tightens

63
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In the small intestines, what type (histology) cells are in the mucosa layer?

A

Simple columnar cells

64
Q

What type of cells are found in the mucosa in the small intestine?

A

Absorptive cells
goblet cells
enteroendocrine cells
T cells

65
Q

What are most enzymes in the small intestine associated with?

A

Brush border

66
Q

What emulsifies fats and facilitates digestion?

67
Q

What is in the center of each liver lobule?

A

Central vein, blood travels here over hepatocytes through sinusoids

68
Q

What is bile released into for transport to the triad?

A

Canaliculi

69
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What does the liver store?

A

Glucose, fat-soluble vitamins, amino acids

70
Q

What are macrophages that live in liver sinusoids?

A

Kupffer’s Cells

71
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What do Kuppfer’s Cells do?

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Remove bacteria and worn RBCs

72
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What is bilirubin converted to in the small intestine

A

Urobilinogen (brown pigment)

73
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What does cholecystokinin cause?

A

The gallbladder to contract and stimulate secretion of pancreatic enzymes

74
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What does secretin trigger?

A

The liver to make more bile

pancreatic production of bicarbonate

75
Q

What are the endocrine islands in the pancreas?

A

Islets of Langerhans

76
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What are the exocrine portion of the pancreas?

A

Acinar tissue

77
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What is produced in the Islets of Langerhans?

A

Insulin
Glucagon
Somatostatin

78
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What is produced in the acinar tissue?

A

Enzymes

Bicarbonate ions

79
Q

What are these:
Trysinogen
Procarboxypeptidase
Chymotripsinogen

A

Proteases produced by the pancreas.

Turn into active form when they reach the small intestine

80
Q

What produces gas and acidity in the large intestine?

A

Ferment undigestible carbs

81
Q

What vitamins are synthesized in the large intestine?

A

B complex and K vitamins

82
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What are the two types of the propulsions that happen in the large intestine?

A

Haustral contraction

Mass movements

83
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What is absorbed in the large intestine

A

Mainly water

ions, vitamins

84
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What is enzymatic hydrolysis?

A

“split with water”

catabolic process where complex molecules are broken into simple molecules

85
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What are the three type of carbohydrate monomoers

A

Glucose
Galactose
Fructose

86
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Where does carbohydrate digestion occurs?

A

Mouth and small intestine

87
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How does fructose cross barriers to get reabsorbed?

A

Facilitated diffusion

88
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What is the only type of nutrient that is digested in the stomach?

89
Q

These are all _____ enzymes
Trypsin
Chymotrypsin
Carboxypeptidase

A

pancreatic

90
Q

These are all ____ enzymes
Aminopeptidase
Carboxypeptidase
Dipeptidase

A

Brush border

91
Q

What cleaves between tyrosine and phenylalanine?

92
Q

What digests casein (infants only)?

93
Q

What hydrolyzes aa one at a time from the C terminus?

A

Carboxypeptidase

94
Q

What do these two enzymes do:
aminopeptidase
Dipeptidase

A

Liberate final aa products

95
Q

What does lipase do?

A

Produces two free fatty acid and monoglyceride

96
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Where are bile salts absorbed?

A

Ileum of small intestine

97
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What is the main form of absorption

A

Active transport

98
Q

In transepithelial transport, uptake occurs on the ____ side, exocytose occurs on the ____ side

A

Apical

Basal

99
Q

Whole proteins are only absorbed in ____

100
Q

What is a collection of fatty elements and bile salts?

101
Q

Where do micelles break apart in order to be absorbed?

A

Near apical surface then lipid diffuse into epithelial cell

102
Q

What is produced in the cytoplasm of epithelium cell when triglycerides combine with phospholipids and cholesterol

A

Chylomicrons

103
Q

What hydrolyzes triglycerides in capillaries?

A

Lipoprotein lipase

104
Q

Does fat go through the liver?

A

No, enter lymph system via lacteals

105
Q

How are fat soluble vitamins absorbed?

A

Incorporated into micelles

106
Q

Where is iron and calcium absorption limited to?

107
Q

How is sodium absorbed?

A

Coupled to cotransport of glucose and amino acids

108
Q

What are chloride ions actively transported in exchange for?

A

Bicarbonate

109
Q

How are potassium ions reabsorbed?

A

Vita simple diffusion (osmotic gradients)

110
Q

Where is iron actively transported into?

A

Mucosa cells

111
Q

What is calcium locally regulated by?

112
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What is water uptake coupled to?

A

Sodium uptake

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