Pancreas and Liver Flashcards
What is the exocrine function for the pancreas and liver?
They are accessory organs for intestines
What do the pancreas and liver provide to the intestines?
Provide excretion (digestive enzymes, HCO3-) directly into intestine lumen to digest carbohydrates, proteins and lipids
What is the endocrine function of the pancreas and liver?
Regulate blood borne energy substrate availability via hormones
Therefore after absorption
Where do the digestive pro-enzymes enter the small intestines?
Enter from the pancreatic duct to the 2nd part of the duodenum
Where does the pancreas sit?
Behind the retroperitoneal lining
Sits in a c-shape curve of the duodenum
What allows secretion into the duodenum from the gall bladder and pancreas?
Sphincter of Oddi
Where does the portal vein form?
Behind the neck of the pancreas at L1
What is the blood supply of the pancreas?
Splenic artery
Anterior and posterior superior pancreatico-duodenal arteries
Anterior and posterior inferior pancreatico-duodenal arteries
What is the origin of the splenic artery?
Coeliac trunk
What is the origin of the pancreatico-duodenal arteries?
Superior mesenteric artery
Coeliac trunk
What are the primary functions of the exocrine pancreas?
Neutralise the very acidic bolus that has arrived from the stomach
Deliver enzymes for macronutrient digestion in duodenum
What are pancreatic acinar cells?
Main secretory cells in pancreas
What connect clusters of acinar cells?
Intercalated ducts
Where do intercalating ducts flow into?
Intralobular ducts
What do acinar cells secrete?
Sodium, potassium, chlorine and bicarbonate
What do ductal cells secrete?
Serous and bicarbonate
What is the cephalic phase accountable for in regards to pancreatic secretions?
25%
What is the gastric phase accountable for in regards to pancreatic secretions?
10%
What is the intestinal phase accountable for in regards to pancreatic secretions?
65%
What is the gastric phase of digestion controlled by?
Vagovagal reflexes
What controls the intestinal phase of digestion?
Secretin and CCK
What controls the cephalic phase of digestion?
Vagus nerve stimulates pancreatic secretions by releasing ACh and VIP