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What is emptying of the gastric resovoir controlled by?

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Tonic contractions and peristaltic waves

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What are tonic contractions controlled by?

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Depolarisation of pacemaker and interstitial cells

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Where do tonic contractions start/end?

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Starts from the fundus and sweeps the length of the stomach

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What does backflow into the stomach allow?

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Churning of the digestor

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How is churning initiated?

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Thick muscular walls of the antrum contract

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How does the stomach store food?

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Proximal muscles relaxes to store food at low pressure

Means acids, enzymes and mechanical things can act on it

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What is a disorder of gastric emptying?

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Gastric stasis (gastroparesis)

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Why is gastric emptying carefully regulated?

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  • avoid swamping the dueodenum
  • allow enough acidification/ neutralisation
  • allow enough mechanical breakdown
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When are indigestible materials removed from the stomach?

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Every so often a housekeeping process takes place

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What is the sieving effect?

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Viscous and solid matter are retained in the stomach (by the pyloric sphincter)

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What is gastric emptying dependant upon? (2 things)

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Propulsive force generated by tonic contractions of proximal stomach

Stomachs ability to differentiate types of meals ingested and their components

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What food types affect gastric emptying?

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Fatty, hypertonic and acidic chyme

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Why do fats affect gastric emptying?

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They need to be emulsified, so they take time to clear out of the duodenum for more stuff to come through

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Why does acidic chyme affect gastric emptying?

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Acid needs to be neutralised before travelling too far into the duodenum

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What effect do fats, acids and hypertonic chyme have on gastric emptying?

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Decrease the force and rate

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How long is the lag phase for a liquid meal?

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None

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How long is the lag phase with semisolid pulp?

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10 (ish) mins

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How long is the lag phase with solid pulp?

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20 (ish) minutes

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What is the order of food types when compared to the rate of gastric motility?

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Carbs > proteins > fatty food > indigestible solids

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What effect does hyperosmolar chyme have on gastric emptying and why?

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Decreases because it changes the osmotic pressure of duodenal contents

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What does BER do?

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When hormones are released, the smooth muscle can depolarise and contract rhythmically

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What does BER stand for?

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Basic electric rhythm

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What hormones inhibit gastric emptying?

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Somatostatin, secretin, CCK and GIP

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What two things can lead to decreased gastric motility?

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Injury to intestinal wall and bacterial infections

Vagal innervation when the duodenum is over distended

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What do stomach muscle cells do?
Produce electric depolarisations from resting potential
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What type of control is the fundus under?
Vagal excitatory control
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How often do ripples occur at BER?
3 waves/ min
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What chemicals control gastric motility?
``` Cholecystokinin (CCK) Secretin VIP Somatostatin Gastrin releasing peptide ```
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How do the chemicals (CCK, VIP, secretin and somatostatin) affect fundic motor activity?
Decrease
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What chemical increases fundic contractions?
Motilin
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What chemicals increase colonic/ intestinal motility?
Cholecystokinin (CCK), gastrin and motilin
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What chemical decreases intestinal/ colonic motility?
Secretin
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What feedback system does gastric emptying work under?
Negative feedback systems
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What stimulates the vagovagal reflex?
Antral and duodenal overdistension and duodenal chemical stimulation
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What contracts in response to antral or duodenal rhythm?
Pyloric sphincter
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What food group in the duodenum cause contraction of the pylorus?
Fatty acids
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What are the four types of motility in the intestine?
Segmentation, peristalsis, migrating motor complex and mass movements
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Where does peristalsis take place?
Stomach
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What is segmentation in the intestine?
Mixing contractions - stationary contraction and relaxation
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What are the three phases of motor activity?
1- quiescence/ quiet period 2- irregular propulsive contractions 3- burst of uninterrupted phasing contractions (peristaltic rush)
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Where does segmentation originate from?
Pacemaker cells (ICC)
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What does segmentation cause?
The slow migration of chyme towards the ileum
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What are the two layers of intestinal muscle and which is where?
Longitudinal (outside) | Circular (inside)
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What do each of the intestinal muscles do behind the bolus of food?
Circular contracts behind the bolus of food and the longitudinal relaxes
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What is the migrating motor complex?
Highly organised cyclically recurring sequence of events
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When does the migrating motor complex occur (MMC)?
Between meals when the stomach and intestine is empty
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Where does the migrating motor complex (MMC) start?
Lower portion of the stomach
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What does the migrating motor complex (MMC) involve?
Burst of high frequency, large amplitude contractions that migrate along the length of the intestine and die out
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What is the interval between different phase 3’s in the migrating motor complex (MMC)?
90-120 mins
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What are the 3 functions of the migrating motor complex (MMC)?
- Removes dead epithelial cells by abrasion - prevents bacterial overgrowth - prevents colonic bacteria from entering the small intestine
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What are contractions coordinated by in the migrating motor complex (MMC)?
Pacemaker cells under the control of the enteric nervous system
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Where are contractions initiated from in the MMC?
Vagus nerve in the upper tract
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What inhibits the release of motilin?
Feeding
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What does ICC stand for and what are they?
Interstitial cells of Cajal Cell types found in the submucosa and submucosal plexus
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What do ICCs do?
Form synaptic connections with GI smooth muscle fibres, due to their complex network between the smooth muscle layers
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How is motor activity in the small intestine (while fed) controlled?
Locally by the ENS but can be enhanced or suppressed by extrinsic innervation
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What effects does increased sympathetic activity have on motor activity in the small intestine?
Inhibits motility
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What effect does increased parasympathetic activity have on motor activity in the small intestine?
Stimulates motility
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What outside factors can affect motility in the small intestine (and which way)?
Pain and fear decrease motility
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Where are fermenting chambers found?
Large intestine
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What do fermenting chambers do?
Allow the hydrolysis of fibrous and indigestible nutrients
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What are the three steps in the motility of the large intestine?
Haustral contractions, peristalsis and mass movement
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What are the features of haustral contractions?
Intensive mixing, fermentation and slow propogation/ slow aboral flow
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What initiates peristalsis in the large intestine?
Distension
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How does colonic evacuation happen?
Powerful contractions of the mid -> transverse colon that moves colon contents into rectum
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What’s the cause of diarrhoea and constipation?
Disorders of motility, fluid secretion and absorption
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What is diarrhoea?
Frequent (>3 times/day) discharge of liquid faeces
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What is constipation?
Difficulty/ some constraint in opening and emptying bowels
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What are the two intrinsic neuronal plexuses in the gut?
Submucosal (meissner) plexus | Myenteric (Auerbach) plexus
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What does the meissner plexus do?
Regulates the digestive glands
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What does the Auerbach plexus do?
Connected with gut motility
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What are the intrinsic controls of the gut?
Nerve plexuses near the GI tract initiate short reflexes Short reflexes are mediated by local enteric plexuses
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What are the extrinsic controls of the gut?
Long reflexes arising within or outside the GI tract Involve CNS centres and extrinsic autonomic nerves Parasympathetic reflexes
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What are the three adaptations of the small intestine for absorption?
Epithelial folds, villi, microvilli
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What are crypt cells important for?
Signalling and defence
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Where are the stem cells in the small intestine?
Crypt cells
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What is transcellular?
Transport through a cell
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What is paracellular?
Transport between cells
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What are the features of paracellular transport?
Passive, selective, variable and regulated
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How can carbs be absorbed?
Only as monosaccharides
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What breaks complex carbs down?
Amylase
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What converts disaccharides to monosaccharides?
Specific brush border enzymes (sucrase)
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What converts glucose oligomers to glucose?
Glucoamylase
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How are glucose and galactose absorbed?
Secondary active transport process (sodium glucose pump transport mechanism thingy)
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How is fructose absorbed?
GLUT5 and GLUT2
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How are proteins broken down into polypeptide chains or oligopeptides?
Pepsins or pancreatic proteases
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How are amino acids transported?
On a sodium coupled carrier system (like the glucose one)
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How are some di and tri peptides transported?
On a carrier system that uses an inwardly directed H+ gradient
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What happens once the amino acid is in the cell?
It’s really easy to transport it into the capillary as they have specific transporters
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What % of dietary lipids do TGs make up?
90%
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What is the other 10% of non-TG dietary lipids made up of?
Phospholipids, cholesterol, fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K)
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Where are most dietary TGs digested?
In the small intestine
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What is the solubility of TGs?
Insoluble
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What must happen before triglycerides can be fully digested?
Must be dissolved in the aqueous phase
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What are the two phases in the digestion and absorption of lipids?
Emulsification and miscelle formation
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What % of fats are broken down by gastric lipase?
10-30%
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What are the two enzymes that break down fats?
Pancreatic and gastric lipase
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What does lipase action require?
Bile salts
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How does pancreatic lipase work?
Binds to the surface of the small emulsion particles
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How are miscelles absorbed?
Fuse with the brush border and the mono and triglycerides are emptied into the enterocyte
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What happens to the TGs once they’re inside the enterocyte?
Resynthesised and aggregate. They get surrounded by apolipoproteins and form chylomicrons
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What happens once chylomicrons have been made in the enterocyte?
They are extruded into the lymphatic system via the lacteals, then into the blood via the thoracic duct
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Where can you find the thoracic duct?
Near the subclavian vein
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What causes the lymph drainage from the small intestine to appear milky?
Lots of lipids being absorbed -> lots of chylomicrons
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What is steatorrhoea?
Excess fat in faeces
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What illnesses can lead to steatorrhoea?
Gallstones, pancreatitis, crohns and liver disease

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