[Recalls] GIT EVALS Flashcards
What is the primary site for absorption of nutrients?
Answer. Small Intestine
The muscle layer of the GIT consist of:
Answer: Inner layer Circular smooth muscle
Which of the following absorbs water and electrolyte?
Answer: Both large and small intestines
Which of the following absorbs lipids, carbohydrates and amino acids?
Answer: Small intestine
Digestion requires enzymes secreted in the following except:
Answer: Large intestine
Ingestion of food initiates multiple responses. Which of the following involves the release of neurotransmitter in the blood?
Answer: Endocrine
Which of the following is not true about GALT?
Answer: mucosal immune system, organized aggregates of lymphoid tissue, protects against potential pathogens, permits immunologic tolerance
It is the primary neural mechanism that controls GI function.
Answer: Enteric Nervous System
What plexus found in the submucosa only in small and large intestine?
Answer: Meissner’s plexus
What plexus located between the circular and longitudinal smooth muscle?
Answer: Myenteric and Auerbach’s plexus
Which of the ENS neurotransmitter is the primary preganglionic and postganglionic neurotransmitter regulating both secretory functions and muscle activity in GI tract?
Answer: Acetylcholine
Somatostatin: what GI peptide hormone source
D-cells
CCK:
I-cells
Gastrin
G-cells
Secretin
S-cells
Gastric secretions can amount up to 2 liters per day basal secretion is usually reach in which of the following:
Answer: Sodium
Which of the following is the most important stimulus for gastric acid secretion in humans?
Answer: Histamine
The following statement/s is/are true of secretin?
Answer: It can cause direct down regulation of parietal Hydrogen release
The presence of chyme in the duodenum will result in increase secretion of the following except:
Answer: Histamine
Gastric emptying: the emptying of solid is the function of:
Answer: smooth muscle in the antrum
The d-cells in the corpus in the stomach are triggered to release somatostatin by:
Answer: Neural and Hormonal mechanism
Which of the following is the most potent inhibitor of gastric acid secretion?
Answer: Lipids
In the process of gastric acid secretion, the secretion of Hydrogen Ion is due to extrusion of hydrogen from the cell lumen in exchange for:
Answer: Potassium
In gastric accommodation, cumulative increase in volume in the stomach causes an increase in intragastric pressure:
Answer: False
ECL cells
Histamine
I cells of duodenum and jejenum
CCK
Regulation of mucosal growth in corpus
Gastrin
Secreted also by pancreas and hypothalamus
Somatostatin
Chief cells
Pepsinogen
Which of the following is not one of the several different patterns of digestion?
Answer: Enzymatic
Celiac sprue
Duodenum and jejenum
Chronic pancreatitis
Fat digestion
Celiac sprue
Fat absorption
Surgical resection disease
Ileum
Lactase deficiency
Small intestine
Normal adult small intestine absorbs how many % of dietary lipid while carbohydrate provides ___ of the total energy needed of western diet:
Answer: 9.5, 45%