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Digestion and absorption processes in the GI tract Flashcards

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Where does absorption mainly take place?

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the small intestine

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Where is the first place that we can start digesting proteins?

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in the stomach

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What are the 2 types of digestive activity?

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cavital (luminal) digestion

Membrane (contact) digestion

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What are the longitudinal folds on the surface of the small intestine called?

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folds of Kerckring

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Where are villi longest and shortest?

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longest in the duodenum and shortest in the terminal iileum

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What are enterocytes?

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eptihelial cells of the intestine

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What are globlet cells?

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mucus secreting cells

-they protect us

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What are Paneth cells

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Part of the mucosal defenses against infection

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What does the enterocyte membrane do to control the flux of solutes and fluid between the lumen and blood?

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  • pinocytosis @ base of microvilli, major mechanism in uptake of protein
  • Passive diffusion: particles move through prose in cell membrane or through intercellular spaces
  • Facilitated diffusion
  • active transport
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What is the big deal if the terminal ileum is resected?

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we can’t absorb vitamin B12 and bile salts

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What kind of carb is the only one that is absorbed by enterocytes?

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ONLY MONOSACCHARIDES!

-we have to get everything to that point somehow

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What is starch broken down into?

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amylase breaks it down to Dextrin, maltose, and maltotriose

-those all get turned into glucose

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What do trehalose, lactose, and sucrose get broken down into?

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trehalose— glucose
lactose= gluc and galactose
sucrose= gluc and fruct

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What two sugars does sucrase cut?

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maltotriose and sucrose

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What are the 3 end products of carb digestion?

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glucose, galactose, and fructose

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What is the special transporter that Fructose gets?

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GLUT 5

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What transports glucose and galactose into the cell?

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SGLT 1

-uses 2ndary active transport with Na

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What exports all three digested sugars out of the basolateral side?

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GLUT 2

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What results from the lack of the brush border enzyme lactase?

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osmotic diarrhea and excess gas

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what is pepsin made by?

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chief cells

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What are the 4 endo peptidases?

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pepsin, trypsin, chymotrypsin, and elastase

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What are the exopeptidases?

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Carbosypeptidase A and B

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In the small intestine, what activates trypsin?

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Enteropeptidase (brush border) and trypsin

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What does trypsin do?

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activates a lot of other enzymes

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What do we end up breaking proteins into when we are in the small intestine?
aa's, di and tri peptides
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What kind of transport is used to bring in aa's
2ndary active using Na, | -there are 4 separate sotransporters, one for each neutral, acidic, basic, and imino aa
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What kind of transporter is used to bring in di and tri peptides
H+ cotransporter -then, a peptidase inside the cell cuts them up and then they go out the basolateral side like all the others through facilitated diffusion
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What is Cystinuria?
- when we don't have that transporter for the di-basic amino acids - those aa's will be excreted in feces
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What is Hartnup disease?
when we cannot absorb neutral amino acids like trp | -ppl will have trp and serotonin in their pee or poo
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Which organ is the first one to fail in CF?
the pnacreas because the stuff is too thick so WE CAN'T FLUSH OUT ACTIVE ENZYMES OUT OF THE DUCT -may lead to acute pancreatitis
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What makes the assimilation of lipids rather difficult?
their insolubility | -we need to stick them in micelles
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What initiates lipid digestion in the stomach?
lingual and gastric lipases
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What performs the emulsifying action of lipids in the stomach
dietary proteins | -NOT BILE
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What allows sufficient time for lipid to get digested properly by slowing the rate of gastric emptying?
CCK | -it's secreted when fat hits the small intestine
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Where does the most lipid digestion occur?
the small intestine | -that's where bile salts will emusilfy the lipids
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What are the 4 pancreatic enzymes that help complete the digestive work in the small intestine?
- pancreatic lipase: inactivated by bile salts, secreted as active form - Colipase: activated by trypsin, it binds pancreatic lipase displacing bile salts - cholesterol ester hydrolase: catalyzes production of cholesterol and hydrolzes triglycerides to produce glycerol - PLA2: also activated by trypsin
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What is the optimum pH for pancreatic lipase?
6
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What is the mechanism for processing a lipid?
- solubize in bile salts - diffusion of micellar content across apical membrane - reesterification - chylomicron formation (apoB) - exocytosis of chylomicron
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What happens if there's no Apo B?
there's no absorption of dietary lipids - abetalipoproteinemia - we need that for the chylomicron
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What is the result of any disorder of lipid assimilation?
steatorrhea
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What are the key steps in lipid formation?
- pancreatic enzyme secretion - bile acid secretion - emulsification - micelle formation - diffusion of lipids into intestinal epithelial cells - chylomicron formation - transfer of chylomicrons into lymph
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What is Zollinger Ellison syndrom?
a gastrin-secreting tumor that makes parietal cells secrete a lot of H+ and there's an overload of acid in the DUODENUM
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What do bacteria do to bile salts?
deconjugate them... causing a failure of micelle formation
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What are the 2 examples of deficits in bile salts?
Ileal resection and Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth
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What is Tropical sprue?
reduction inthe # of intestinal epithelial cells which in turn reduces the microvillar surface area -lipid absorption is impaired because the surface area for absorption is decreased... steatorrhea
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What is non-troical (celiac) sprue?
autoimmune disorder - Ab's against a component of gluten:GLIADIN - destruction of villi in SI - can't absorb B12 very well
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What are the fat soluble vitamins?
ADEK | -absorbed in same way as lipids
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What are the water soluble vitamins?
B1,2,3 and 12, C, biotin, folic acid, nicotinic acid, and pantothenic acid
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How are the water soluble vitamins absorbed?
via a Na+ dependent cotransport mechanism inthe small bowel
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What does Vit B12 complex with in order to be absorbed?
- R proteins secreted by slaivary juices - IF secreted by gastric parietal cells - and Transcobalamin II
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What happens if we take the stomach out or bypass it?
lose parietal cells or we can't absorb Vit B12 anymore
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What is pernicious anemia?
Where B12 doesn't get absorbed because IF isn't there - could be from chronic inflammation of stomach mucosa leading to no parietal cells - or could be an autoimmune condition
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Describe the mechanism of the absorption of Vitamin D
- 7-dehydrocholesterol gets turned into cholecalciferol by the sun - liver changes that to 25 hydroxy-D3 and it goes to the kidney - that gets turned into 2 different forms of D3 by 1-alpha-hydroxylase - increases gut Ca absorption, bone calcification, and bone resorption

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