Regulation of gut function Flashcards
What is the intrinsic nervous system for the gut called?
Enteric nervous system.
What does activation of the sympathetic nervous system do to the gastrointestinal tract?
Inhibits gastrointestinal tract activity.
Sympathetic nerves emerging from what ganglion innervate the stomach?
Coeliac ganglion.
Sympathetic nerves emerging from what ganglion innervate the small intestine?
Superior mesenteric ganglion.
Sympathetic nerves emerging from what ganglion innervate the colon?
Inferior mesenteric and pelvic ganglion.
What neurotransmitter acts on the gut from the sympathetic nervous system?
Noradrenaline.
What neurotransmitter acts on the gut from the parasympathetic nervous system?
Acetylcholine.
What parasympathetic nerves innervates the stomach, small intestine and proximal colon?
Vagus nerve.
What are the two types of muscle that makes up the muscularis? What plexus is between these muscle layers?
Circular muscle and longitudinal muscle. Myenteric plexus.
What is the nerve plexus in the submucosa called?
Submucosal plexus/Meissner’s plexus
What is the myenteric plexus responsible for?
Controls gut motility.
What is the submucosal plexus responsible for?
Senses the gut lumen environment. Controls secretion, blow flow, epithelial and endocrine cell function.
What stimulates sensory neurones in myenteric plexus?
Distention of gut.
What stimulates sensory neurones in submucosal plexus?
Chemicals in food.
What is peristalsis?
Sequential contraction and relaxation of circular and longitudinal muscle to propel food along GI tract.
What muscles cause propel food in peristalsis?
Contraction of circular muscles before bolus.
What muscles are responsible for receiving the bolus in peristalsis?
Contraction of longitudinal muscles widen the lumen to receive bolus.
Examples of what parasympathetic nervous system does to the GI tract?
Increase peristalsis, increase absorption, increase secretions.
What does the enteric nervous system to the extrinsic autonomic nervous system?
Modulates sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system via sensory neurones to the brain.
What is hirschsprung’s disease? What does it result in?
Congenital absence of ganglion of myenteric and submucosal. Enlarged colon.
What are neurocrine hormones? What secretes them?
Hormones that affect nerves. Postganglionic non-cholinergic neurones of the enteric nervous sytem.
Where are hormone containing granules in enteroendocrine cells?
Basolateral membrane.
How does enteroendocrine cell release of endocrine hormones happen
Food molecules, distention or vagus nerve stimulate enteroendocrine cells to release endocrine hormones via the basolateral membrane into the capillaries.
What are some hormones release from the stomach?
Gastrin and ghrelin.