Physiology 2 Flashcards
The GI Tract is all smooth muscle except?
upper 1/3 of esophagus and anal sphincter (striated)
Types of Smooth Muscle Contraction?
- Phasic - parastalic
2. Tonic - can last hours
Chewing does?
- breaks down food particles
- mixes food with saliva
- increase surface are to digest better
Functions of stomach?
- storage-most in orad area
- break down food particles in small cubic sizes
- gastric emptying
GERD
- acid reflux
- heartburn
- hiatal hernia, pregnancy, failure of secondary peristalsis
Oxyntic Cells
Parietal Cells, in body of stomach, weak motility
Pyloric
antrum, very strong contractions, muscle is thicker in this area
accommodation
relaxation
Cells of Caja
-slow waves always present from these intestinal cells
“gastric pacemaker”
3-5 depolarizations/min
Vagal Stimulation effect on slow waves
-increase height of waves (so increase frequency of contraction)
What empties fastest in the stomach?
-isotonic water (everything becomes isotonic when it goes in duodenum)
CCK effect on emptying?
inhibits
Effect of acid on peristalsis?
decrease from neural reflex
Failure of Gastric Emptying
- fullness, loss of appetite, nausea
- obstruction-ulcer, nausea
- vagotomy
Increased Gastric Emptying
- inadequate regulation
- diarrhea, duodenal ulcer
Reason for irregular contractions in small intestine?
- mixing
- digesting
- absorption
Peristalsis
propulsion, moves food only 4-5cm at a time, short
Migrating Motor Complex
- “housekeeper” reflex
- goes away when you start to eat
- # of contractions per minute except areas of extreme contractility (90min) b/c of motiline (creates wave beginning in stomach)
Small Intestine Motility
-must have spikes to have contraction
Teniae Coli
-longitudinal muscle
Haustra
-segmentation in colon, can disappear and reappear in different areas
Achalsia
food stuck in esophagus
rectosphinteric reflex
when rectum is distended, it will contract external sphincter
absent in paraphalgicts (rectal sphincter causes defication)
voluntary rexed for deification
Salivary Secretion Components
- alpha amylase - pH 7, lingual lipase (acidic), solubilization (to taste food)
- lubrication - needed for speech
- protective function - allows drinking hot, dilute noxious substances, dec. cavities, sec. F, Ca, P, lysosomes to wash particles from teeth