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Pancreas and Liver Flashcards

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1
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What is the exocrine function for the pancreas and liver?

A

They are accessory organs for intestines

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What do the pancreas and liver provide to the intestines?

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Provide excretion (digestive enzymes, HCO3-) directly into intestine lumen to digest carbohydrates, proteins and lipids

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What is the endocrine function of the pancreas and liver?

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Regulate blood borne energy substrate availability via hormones

Therefore after absorption

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4
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Where do the digestive pro-enzymes enter the small intestines?

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Enter from the pancreatic duct to the 2nd part of the duodenum

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5
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Where does the pancreas sit?

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Behind the retroperitoneal lining

Sits in a c-shape curve of the duodenum

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6
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What allows secretion into the duodenum from the gall bladder and pancreas?

A

Sphincter of Oddi

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7
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Where does the portal vein form?

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Behind the neck of the pancreas at L1

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8
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What is the blood supply of the pancreas?

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Splenic artery

Anterior and posterior superior pancreatico-duodenal arteries

Anterior and posterior inferior pancreatico-duodenal arteries

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9
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What is the origin of the splenic artery?

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Coeliac trunk

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10
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What is the origin of the pancreatico-duodenal arteries?

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Superior mesenteric artery

Coeliac trunk

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What are the primary functions of the exocrine pancreas?

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Neutralise the very acidic bolus that has arrived from the stomach

Deliver enzymes for macronutrient digestion in duodenum

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12
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What are pancreatic acinar cells?

A

Main secretory cells in pancreas

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13
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What connect clusters of acinar cells?

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Intercalated ducts

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14
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Where do intercalating ducts flow into?

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Intralobular ducts

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15
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What do acinar cells secrete?

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Sodium, potassium, chlorine and bicarbonate

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16
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What do ductal cells secrete?

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Serous and bicarbonate

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17
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What is the cephalic phase accountable for in regards to pancreatic secretions?

A

25%

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18
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What is the gastric phase accountable for in regards to pancreatic secretions?

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10%

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19
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What is the intestinal phase accountable for in regards to pancreatic secretions?

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65%

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20
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What is the gastric phase of digestion controlled by?

A

Vagovagal reflexes

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21
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What controls the intestinal phase of digestion?

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Secretin and CCK

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22
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What controls the cephalic phase of digestion?

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Vagus nerve stimulates pancreatic secretions by releasing ACh and VIP

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23
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What granules in the acinar cells house digestive enzymes?

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Zymogen granules

24
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What are digestive enzymes released to?

A

In response to CCK, VIP and gastric-releasing peptide

25
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What happens when CCK enters the blood stream?

A

They travel to pancreatic acinar cells and bind to CCK receptors

These then force the zymogen granules to be exocytose and release the digestive enzymes into the intestinal space

26
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How do acinar cells secrete chlorine and what does this allow?

A

Basolateral binding of CCK and ACh stimulates chlorine across the apical membrane

This then facilitates the paracellular water and sodium movement

27
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How do intercalated ductal cells secrete chlorine and bicarbonate?

A

Secretin and ACh bind in ductal cells

These activate cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulators, chlorine channels and chlorine-bicarbonate co-transporters

28
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What can flow rate change in pancreatic secretion rate?

A

Increased in flow rate will increase the concentration of bicarbonate but will decrease chlorine

29
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What does flow rate no effect?

A

Sodium and potassium

30
Q

What surrounds the liver?

A

Peritoneum apart from the bare area

31
Q

What completely surrounds the liver?

A

Glisson’s capsule

32
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What is the Glisson’s capsule?

A

Thin connective tissue later with extensions into the organ between the lobules

33
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What is the blood supply of the liver?

A

Hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery

34
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Function of the hepatic portal vein?

A

Bringing absorbed nutrients from the stomach and gut to the liver

35
Q

Function of the hepatic artery?

A

Supplies the hepatocytes with oxygen

36
Q

What are the different lobes of the liver?

A

Left

Right

Caudate

Quadrate

Spigelian

37
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What separates the left and right lobes?

A

Falciform ligament

38
Q

What are the main functions of the live?

A

Synthesis and secretion of bile

Storage of glucose, glycogen, proteins, vitamins and fats

Detoxification of metabolic waste

Synthesis of blood clotting and anticoagulant factors

39
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What is bile made from?

A

Bile pigments

Cholesterol

Phospholipids

Fatty acids

Water

Electrolytes

40
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What is the main bile pigment?

A

Bilirubin

41
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What is bilirubin?

A

An orange-yellow pigment formed in the liver by the breakdown of haemoglobin

42
Q

What are the role of bile salts?

A

Detergent and emulsifying effect of bile on fats

43
Q

What do hepatocytes do?

A

Secrete bile into canaliculi across a series of bile ducts until they from the common hepatic duct

44
Q

What is the flow of bile in relation to the hepatic artery and vein?

A

The opposite

45
Q

Where can bile travel from?

A

From the common bile duct into the duodenum or into the gall bladder

46
Q

What decides the end point of bile?

A

Sphincter of Oddi

When relaxed, mainly to duodenum

When contracted to gall bladder

47
Q

What is the effect of bile acids in bile?

A

Emulsify lipids

48
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What is the effect of water and electrolytes in the bile?

A

Water is reabsorbed by the changes in isosmotic pressure to concentrate the bile

49
Q

What regulates the sphincter of Oddi?

A

CCK

50
Q

What is the effect of CCK on the gall bladder?

A

Expel bile

51
Q

What is the effect of vagal stimulation on the gall bladder?

A

Weak contraction

52
Q

What inhibits bile acid secretion?

A

Somatostatin and noradrenaline

53
Q

What processes does the liver do in regards to metabolism?

A

Glycogenolysis

Gluconeogenesis

54
Q

What does the liver detoxify?

A

Removal of ammonia and ethanol and drug biotransformation

55
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What is the immune function of the liver?

A

Removal of intestinal bacteria from portal blood

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