Digestion Flashcards
Pancreatic amylase
Responsible for carbohydrate digestion
Pancreatic juice
Bicarbonate helps to neutralize acidic chyme. Contains enzymes that digest carbohydrates, fats, and proteins
Pancreatic peptides
Trypsinogen, chymotrypsin, elastinogen, carboxypeptidase are released in their zymogen form but responsible for protein digestion.
Enterokinase
Produced by small intestine and activates trypsinogen to trypsin (master switch)
Lipase
Pancreas secretes it and is capable of breaking down fats to free fatty acids
Bile
Produced by liver and stored in gall bladder
Gall bladder releases bile into…
The duodenum by way of the bile duct in response to the hormone cholecystokinin
Bile does what
Emulsifies dietary fats and cholesterol into micelles (mechanical digestion)
Chyme in the duodenum causes
The small intestine to release disaccharides
Secretin
Hormone that causes pancreatic juice to be exuded from the pancreas
CCK
Hormone that stimulates the release of both pancreatic juice and bile
Chief cells secrete
Pepsinogen
Parietal cells secrete
Hydrochloric acid
Pyloric glands secrete
Gastric
