Phys 3-5 Flashcards
Role of GI secretions:
What 3 things do they do and how?
- Facilitate digestion (enzymes)
- Provide cell protection (mucous and neutralization of acid)
- Provide lubrication (mucous and serous fluid)
Locations of:
- Mucous cells
- Acinar cells
- Gastric gland cells
- Secretory cells
- Throughout the GI tract, mouth to large intestine
- Salivary glands and pancreas
- Wall of the stomach
- Mucosa of small intestine, Crypts of Lieberkühn
Neural: autonomic control of secretion
Parasympathetic vs. Sympathetic
P: increases secretion
S: decreases secretion by inhibiting parasympathetic ACh release and decreasing blood flow (alpha 1 vasoconstriction)
Secretion is usually mediated by which second messengers ?
Ca++
IP3
cAMP
A rise in ___ and ___ increases exocytosis
cAMP
Ca++
Mucins lubricate, and are made where?
Submandibular and
Sublingual glands
Salivary amylase does what?
Active pH range?
Breaks down starch to oligosaccharide molecules
4-11
7 is optimum
What does watery acinar secretion do?
Protects by buffering and diluting noxious substances
Absence of saliva due to lack or block or salivary gland
Xerostomia
The parotid gland is comprised of __
Submandibular?
Sublingual?
Only serous acini
*no mucous
The other two are mixed
Parasympathetic stimulation of salivary glands
Vasodilation
Increases blood flow
(ACh activates endothelial NO synthase and NO causes relaxation)
Saliva is always ___ to plasma
pH of secreted saliva:
Hypotonic
*higher flow rate=higher tonicity
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Control of salivary secretion is ___
Neuronal - ANS only
Not hormonal
____ nerve ablation leads to atrophy of salivary glands but ___ ablation does not
Parasympathetic
Sympathetic
Characteristics unique to saliva:
- Always hypotonic
- Totally neural control
- Parasympathetic vasodilates
- Sympathetic causes secretion initially
Agents that induce an increase in ___ levels preferentially increase ___ secretion
cAMP
Amylase and mucous
___ cells secrete pepsinogen in the stomach
___ cells secrete HCl and intrinsic factor
___ cells secrete much of the mucous
Chief
Parietal
Neck
Potassium is always higher in the ___ than in the ___
Gastric acid
Plasma
*so vomiting may cause hypokalemia
Gastric juice contains:
Salts Water Pepsins Intrinsic factor Mucous
Major anion of gastric acid?
___ converts pepsinogen to pepsin
Chloride
HCl
Mechanism of acid secretion
H+/K+ or proton pump
pH of secreted acid is 0.8!
K+ and Cl- are transported into the lumen
K+ is recycled
What is the “Alkaline Tide”?
Bicarbonate leaves the cell and enters the blood, raising the pH of venous blood leaving the stomach
Pepsinogen is secreted from ___ cells and is converted to pepsin at what pH?
What pH does it work best at?
What is it’s release stimulated by?
Chief
Less than 5
3 or below
-histamine, ACh, gastrin, secretin, CCK
What is the only gastric function required for life?
Secretion of intrinsic factor (which is a glycoproteins) by parietal cells
Intrinsic factor is required for___
Absorption of B12
Insoluble mucous for the barrier is secreted by ___
Soluble mucous is secreted by __
Surface epithelial cells
Pyloric glands
___ are known to increase mucosal blood flow as well as ___ and mucous secretion and to stimulate ___
Prostaglandins
Bicarbonate
Mucosal cell repair and renewal
What things inhibit normal mucous layer formation and reduce prostaglandin production. What can this lead to?
- NSAIDs, alcohol, stress
- ulcers
Histamine is released from ___ cells and stimulates ___ receptors. It is blocked by ___
Enterochromaffin-like cells
H2
Cimetidine
ACh is released from ____ and stimulates ___ receptors. It is blocked by ___
Cholinergic nerves from Vagus
Muscarinic
Atropine
Gastrin is produced by ___ in the stomach antrum and duodenum.
What does it do?
G-cells
Stimulates acid release as ACh or Histamine
Any one agonist will potentiate the acid secretion elicited by another
Potentiation
3 sources of stimulation of gastric acid secretion
- Cephalic-sight or smell of food, chewing or swallowing
- Gastric-distension
- Intestinal-protein digestion products
Major mechanisms for inhibiting gastric acid secretion
- Acid in the antrum of the stomach
- Acid in the duodenum
- Hyperosmotic solutions, fatty acids, and monoglycerides on the duodenum
Most agents that increase HCl secretion also increase ____ secretion
But?
Pepsinogen
*But CCK and Secretin stimulate chief cells to secrete pepsinogen but inhibit HCl secretion
The pancreatic digestive enzymes are secreted by the acini into the pancreatic ducts and enter the duodenum via ___
Sphincter of Oddi
Pancreatic exocrine secretion control?
Neuronal and hormonal
Secretin elicits an ___ secretion of pancreatic juice while CCK elicits ___
Aqueous
Secretion rich in pancreatic enzymes
Pancreatic juice:
Aqueous part
- Secreted by columnar epithelium lining the ducts
- [Na] and [K] similar to plasma
- HCO3 and Cl are the major anions
- initially hypertonic, but then isotonic
- secretin is the stimulus