The digestive system Flashcards

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Processes of the GI tract

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motility, secretion, digestion and absorption

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Mucosa tissue layer

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Innermost layer - lines luminal surface and tightly folded.
Mucous membrane: serves as a protective surface, secretes and absorbs, contains exocrine gland cells, endocrine gland cells and epithelial cells.
Lamina propria: houses gut-associated lymphoid tissue (GALT) = defence against disease
Muscularis mucose: smooth layer of muscle

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Submucosa tissue layer

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Thick layer of connective tissue giving distensibility and elasticity. Contains larger blood and lymph vessels and a nerve network

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Muscular externa tissue layer

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Major smooth muscle coat of the digestive tube. Has a circular inner layer in which contraction decreases the diameter of the lumen, and a longitudinal outer layer in which contraction shortens the tube. Produces propulsive and mixing movements.

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Serosa tissue layer

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Secretes serous fluid to lubricate and prevent friction between digestive organs and surrounding viscera. Is continuous with mesentery throughout the tract - attachment provides relative fixation, supports digestive organs in place

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Enteric nervous innervation

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Intrinsic - myenteric plexus and sub mucous plexus. Interconnected motor, secretory and sensory neurons

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Extrinsic nervous innervation

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Autonomic - parasympathetic increases activity and sympathetic decreases
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Salivary glands

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3 pairs; secrete salt, water, mucus, amylase. pH rises as secretion increases as bicarbonate ions not absorbed as fast

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Tongue

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Secretes lingual lipids, IgA, lysozyme

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Stomach

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Secretes HCl, pepsin, music, HCO3- to stabilise food, protein digestion and protection

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Pancreas

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Secretes many enzymes, HCO3- to digest fats, CHO3, protease and neutralise chyme

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Liver

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Secretes bile salts, HCO3- and waste products to solubilise fats, adjust pH and remove toxic material

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Gall bladder

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Stores and concentrated bile used in fat digestion

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Small intestine

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Secretes enzymes, salt, water and mucous for digestion and to maintain fluidity of contents

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Carbohydrate

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Salivary/pancreatic amylase hydrolyses 1:4 alpha link –> oligosaccharides –> monosaccharides. Absorbed by active co-transport with Na+ and facilitated diffusion into capillary

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Proteins

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Pepsin in stomach hydrolyses various size aromatic AA-PPs. Small intestine endopeptidases, exopeptidase and dipeptidase. Absorbed by transcytosis or co-transport with Na+.

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Fats

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Lingual lipase digests up to 30% triglyceride, duodenum = pancreatic lipase - triglyceride –> monoglyceride + 2FAs. Fats aid digestion by forming large liquid droplets, lipases are water double and emulsification. To speed up, micelles form due to bile salts much smaller than emulsion droplets.

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Sodium, Cl- and HCO3- absorption

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Follow Na+ => absorbed with glucose

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Water absorption

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Passive, follows solutes to maintain osmotic equilibrium

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Vitamin absorption

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Fat soluble with fats, water soluble by diffusion/mediated transport. B12 bind to intrinsic factor and then specific sites on epithelial cells of ileum by endocytosis

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GI control systems respond to…

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distention of walls by luminal contents, chyme osmolality, chyme acidity, conc of specific digestive products

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Types of GI control systems

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Neural - autonomic
Enteric - stomach 
Hormonal - endocrine 
Paracrine - local
Local muscle response
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Long and short reflects and stimuli outside GI tract

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Sub mucous plexus endocrine and exocrine secretions, myenteric plexus control of peristaltic activity, interconnections between the two, neural info to and from tract

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Hormonal control of the GI tracts

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Cells in GI epithelium, receptors on surface in contact with luminal content, hormones released into interstitial fluid - endocrine action via blood and paracrine action via luminal content, each hormone subject to -ve feedback. Hormones together produce a bigger effect

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Phases of GI control

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Cephalic - receptors in head, efferent pathway, primarily neural
Gastric - receptors in stomach (vol), efferent pathway, neural, long and short reflexes, hormonal
Intestinal - receptors in intestine (vol), efferent pathway, neural, long and short reflexes, hormonal

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Mouth

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Mastication - somatic nerves to skeletal muscle, voluntary control, reflex in gyms and hard palate
Saliva secretion
Swallowing - complex reflex

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Oesophagus

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Peristalsis. upper 1/3 skeletal, lower 1/3 smooth. Skeletal and autonomic nerves, secondary peristalsis = afferent/efferent pathway. Food bolus moves in one direction

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Stomach gastric motility

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Filling involves receptive relaxation - extra volume of food with little rise in pressure, mediated by vagus nerve.
Storage in body, mixing in antrum
Emptying controlled by factors n duodenum and stomach (vol chyme). Either neural or autonomic nerves

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Stomach gastric secretory activity

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2 regions of gastric mucosa secrete gastric juice - oxyntic mucosa and pyloric gland area. Gastric pits at base of gastric glands. 3 types of gastric exocrine cells: mucous, chief and parietal
Hal stomach secretion bu parietal
Pepsinogen stimulated by nerves
Control of Hal during a meal: cephalic (sight etc in HCl), gastric (distention etc in HCl), intestinal (dec HCl)
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Bile secretion

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HCO3- by epithelial cells of bile duct stimulate by secretion
Bile salts by rate of secretion, storage of bile in gall bladder, CCK

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SI motility

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Mixing, decreased frequency of segmentation from duodenum to ileum, slow forward movement of chyme, force affected by hormonal and neural influences, gastro-ileac reflex increases segmentation, migrating motility complex, short peristaltic waves, contents moved to LI in 2hrs

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LI motility

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Ilocecal sphincter relaxed by gastroileal reflex - chyme moves in to LI, reflux prevented by closure of ilocecal spinchter, enteric NS, LI segmentation, mass movement 3-4 times a day

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Defection

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Anus - internal anal sphincter (smooth) abd external sphincter (skeletal), neural control, voluntary modification
Rectal distention - defecation reflex: internal s relaxes, external contracts, inc peristalsis in sigmoid colon, inc rectal pressure, external s relocation