Week 2 - Salivation and Swallowing and development Flashcards
What is the end result of mastication and salivation?
-Formation of a food bolus for swallowing
How much saliva is produced per day?
-1.5L
What is the function of saliva?
- Lubricate and wet food
- Start digestion of carbohydrates
- Protection of oral environment
In what ways is the oral environment protected by saliva?
- Maintains teeth integrity by neutralising acid produced by bacteria
- Keeps mucosa moist to prevent ulceration
- Contains antibodies and WBCs to protect against bacteria
What is zerostomia? What are the consequences of this condition?
- Absence of saliva production
- Oral environment degrades at a very quick rate due to acid produced by bacteria
- Halitosis and poor dentition
What is saliva?
-Hypotonic watery secretion with mucus which is produced by glands in the mouth
What triggers saliva production above baseline?
-Senses of food including thought as a response from the brainstem
What are the three major salivary glands and their secretions?
- Parotid -> serous rich in enzymes (25%)
- Submandibular -> mixed (70%)
- Sublingual -> mainly mucus with no enzymes (5%)
What are the constituents of saliva?
- Water (hypotonic )
- Electrolytes -> Na, Cl at lower conc than plasma, Ca, I and K at higher conc than plasma
- Alkali -> HCO3 at higher conc than plasma
- Mucus
Why does saliva need to be hypotonic?
-Prevent water being drawn out of mucosa and being absorbed instead
Why is there a high concentration of calcium in saliva?
-Prevent teeth erosion
Why is iodide present in saliva?
-Bacteriocide
Why is mucus present in saliva?
-To coat food bolus for easy swallowing
What enzymes are most prominent in saliva?
- Salivary amylase
- Salivary lipase
What type of glands are the salivary glands?
-Ducted, exocrine glands
Describe the glandular structure of salivary glands and the fuctions of specific parts
- Terminal tubulo-acinar structures
- Acinar cells are secretory
- Ductal cells are modificatory
What is stensons duct?
-Duct of parotid glands
What is whartons duct?
-Duct of submandibular gland
Describe the secretion from acinar cells
- Secretion is isotonic with ECF with a higher conc of I (via active transport)
- Secretion contains enzymes manufactured by acinar cells
Describe ductal modification
- There is little change in volume
- It is the solutes which are removed rather than solvent added to make a hypotonic fluid -> impermeable to water
- NaKATPase on basolat sets us gradient
- Na ions are removed from the secretion down gradient and Cl follows
- K Diffuses out into saliva down conc garient
- HCO3 added
Describe the differences in saliva during rest and stimulation. What accounts for these differences?
- During rest HCO3 is added to produce a neutral pH saliva and there is a low flow rate meaning there is sufficient time to remove Na. There are few enzymes secrted
- During stimulation excessive HCO3- added to produce an alkaline saliva and there is less Na removed due to the high flow rate and the limited removal rate of ions. Excessive enzyme secretion
Describe the control of secretion of saliva
- Parasympathetic stimulates acinar cells (via ach) to produce primary secretion and ductal modification
- sympathetic input to the glands reduced blood flow and thus limits salivary flow
- Ductal recovery of Na is influenced by aldosterone
What are the three phases of swallowing?
- Voluntary
- Pharyngeal
- Oesophageal
Describe voluntary phase of swallowing
-Food blus moved to pharynx under voluntary control
Describe pharyngeal phase of swallowing
-Afferent information from pharyngeal receptors reaches swallowing centre in brain stem which causes:
Closure of glottis
Inhibition of breathing
opening of oesophagus
Describe oesophageal phase of swallowing
- Upper 1/3 is striated muscle under voluntary control
- Lower 1/3 is smooth muscle under parasymp control and peristalsis propels bolus into stomach
What is the result of lateral embryonic folding in relation to GI tract?
- Ventral body wall formation
- Primitive gut tube formation
What is the result of craniocaudal folding in relation to the GI tract?
-Creates blind pockets of forgut and hindgut
What is different about the midgut to foregut an hindgut in the beginning of development?
- foregut and hind gut are blind diverticula
- Midgut has an opening at first and is continuous with yolk sac
When does development of primitive gut tube begin?
-Week 3
What is the stomatoduem?
-Future mouth
What is the proctoduem?
-Future anus