Pancreas And Liver Flashcards
Describe chyme
Low ph , partially digested hyper tonic solution that leaves the stomach
Which glands in the duodenum are protective against the acidic chyme?
Runners glands - secrete alkali mucous
Is the duodenum porous to water?
Yes its permeable and thus water moves from the ECF into the lumen because of the hypertonic chyme entering it
What happens to the hypertonicoty of the chyme in duodenum?
Enter hypertonic
Continuos digestion initially makes it more hypertonic
Duodenum being permeable to water lets water rush in
Leaves as an isotonic solution
Why is the chyme release into the duodenum regulated?
Water loss would be too high if we flooded the duodenum with hypertonic chyme. Lose ECF water to lumen and dehydrate if we didn’t regulate it,
List three functions of the diodenum
Deal with hypertonicicty
Deal with low pH
Digestive break down
What’s the action of CCK on the pancreas and the gallbladder?
Stimulates pancreas to release enzymes
Relaxes sphincter oddi and contracts hall bladded
What stimulates the pancreas to release aqueous bicarbonate?
Secretin
What stimulates CCK and secretin production
Chyme in the duodenum
What proportion of the pancreas is exocrine?
90%
How is the exocrine pancreas stimulated?
Gut hormones CCK and secretin
Autonomic (parasympathetic vagus nerve stimulates)
Which enzymes are released in an EPA tube form from the pancreatic acini?
Amylase and lipase
Protease are release in an …. form by the acini of the pancreas
Inactive
List the functional endocrine areas of the pancreas
Acini
Duct
What cells are seen in the exocrine pancreas?
Acinar cell, centroacinar cell
Terminal duct cell
Name the active form of pancreatic proteases
Trypsin
Chymotrypsin
Elastase
Carboxypeptidase
Self digestion of the pancreas is called…
Pancreatitis
What protects the pancreas from self digestion?
Proteases are stored as inactive. They are released in zymogen granules with will then only be activated in the intestinal lumen
Give on example of a zymogen
Tryosinohen
What is the function of the duct cells?
Produce aqueous and bicarbonate component of pancreatic secretions will neutralise the acidic chyme
How do pancreatic secretions reach the duodenum?
Pancreatic duct and ampulla of vater
Common bile duct and the pancreatic duct join to make the ?
Ampulla of ,