Stomach, Liver, Kidney, Esophagus, Pancreas Flashcards
What is pancreatitis?
usually caused by gallstones
Blood amylase or lipase at least three times normal
How does pancreatitis present?
upper abdominal pain radiating to the back
vomiting
What can cause jaundice?
Hepatitis and pancreatic cancer
What does a patient with polyurea have?
diabetes mellitus
What are the two types of diabetes Mellitus?
Diabetes Type 1: problem with insulin production
Diabetes Type 2: problem with insulin sensitivity
you will find glucose in the urine
What is Diabetes Insipidus?
a problem with decreased ADH retention and therefore fluid is not retained in collecting duct
What is Addison’s Disease?
Decreased cortisol production
can be autoimmune
What are the symptoms of Addison’s Disease?
weight loss, dizziness due to low BP, muscular pain
What are the layers of the Gut?
Mucosa
Submucosa
Muscularis
Serosa
what layers does the mucosa contain?
epithelium
lamina propria
muscularis mucosa
What layers does the submucosa contain?
glands, vessels, submucosal plexus
What can we find in the muscularis layer?
inner circular layer
myenteric plexus
outer lingitudinal layer
how is the tissue found in the mucosa of the esophagus?
non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium
what cell does the submucosa of the esophagus contain?
mucous glands with ducts that empty onto the luminal surface
what is the muscle tissue found in the different portions of the muscularis layer of the esophagus? What is the importance of this transition of muscles?
Upper part = Skeletal muscle
Middle part = Skeletal and smooth muscle
Lower part = Smooth muscle
its important for swallowing
Where is this?
esophagus
Where are the mucous glands of the stomach found? What do these mucous glands do?
in the cardia and pyloris, they secrete mucous to protect from acid of stomach
What do we find in the fundus of the stomach?
digestive glands (pepsinogen and HCL)
What does the pyloris secrete?
gastrin
What is gastrin?
enhances gastric contraction and secretion
What kind of glands are these and what are the cells that compose them?
Gastric glands
Parietal and Chief cells
What do parietal cells produce?
HCL and intrinsic factor
What organelle is largely found in parietal cells? And why do Parietals cells stain eosinophillic?
mitochondria
because of the many mitochondria
What does intrinsic factor do?
its required for Vitamin B12 absorption
What can lack of intrinsic factor cause?
Megaloblastic anemia
What do chief cells secrete?
pepsinogen
What do chief cell stain?
basophillic
What are the cells of the stomach?
mucous, parietal, chief, enteroendocrine
what are the cells of the small intestine?
paneth cells, enteroendocrine, goblet cells
What do paneth cells do?
secrete lysozyme to prevent accumulation of bacteria in crypt
What are the cells of the large intestine?
enteroendocrine, obsorptive, goblet
Where is this?
duodenum
What does the tissue of the duodenum have?
villi and crypts
Brunner’s glands
What are these cells? What part of the intestine has these cells?
Peyer’s Patches - Ilium
What cells overlay Peyer’s Patches?
M Cells (microfold)
What are M cells?
they endocytose antigens and transport them to lymphocytes and macrophages
What happens in the colon?
water absorption
Where is this?
Colon