Digestive System Flashcards
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4 basic processes
- digestion: mechanical and chemical breakdown of food into smaller pieces
- motility: SMOOTH MUSCLE movement of food down the digestive tract. Peristalsis. Mixing. Churning and segmentation.
- secretion: digestive juice to the lumen
- absorption: enterocytes of the intestinal wall absorb materials then into blood or lymph.
mouth
salivary glands
- moisten food to shape the food into a bolus.
- prevents cavities (lysozyme and antibodies)
- PSNS thin saliva with amylase rich
- SNS thick mucus rich saliva
Mouth DIGESTION
mechanical: chewing into smaller pieces
chemical:
- carbs: polysach–> salivary amylase –> oligo and disach
- fats: triglycerides –> lingual lipase –> monoglyc and FA
Mouth ABSORPTION
none
some drugs such as nitroglycerine (angina) –> vasodilator
Pharynx/Esophagus
3 phases
1. Buccal phase: voluntary, where we swallow the bolus
2. pharyngeal phase: involuntary, food triggers signals to the swallowing centre (medulla) and stimulates the swallowing reflex
3. esophageal phase: food goes down via peristalsis 1/3 somatic NS skel muscle
2/3 mix of both
3/3 PSNS smooth muscle
food cant enter…
- mouth: because tongue on hard palette.
- nasopharynx: because soft palette and uvula is raised
- trachea: because epiglottis and glottis is down. respiration stops
Stomach DIGESTION
mechanical: churning
chemical
1. carbs –> salivary amylase until ph is below 7
2. fats –> lingual lipase and gastric lipase (chief cells) until ph <5-6
3. proteins –> HCL (parietal cells) denatures it and activates pepsinogen (chief cells)
pepsinogen –> HCL –> pepsin + FB
proteins –> pepsin –> aa and peptides
Stomach ABSORPTION
little if any, vinegar, bile, aspirin, alcohol (penetrates mucus –> alkaline and from mucus cells)
Small Intestine DIGESTION
mechanical: segmentation
chemical 3 steps
- neutralize alkaline fluid
- presence of acid in the duodenum leads to the secretion of secretin (hormone) which causes the pancreatic and gallbladder ducts to secrete HCO3- and causes a decrease in gastric acid secretion (parietal cells) - pancreatic enzyme release (pancreatic acinar cells)
- carbs polysac –> pancreatic amylase –> oligo and disach
- lipids triglycerides –> pancreatic lipase w/ bile salts –> monoglic and FA
- proteins
trypsinogen –> enterpeptidase –> trypsin
trypsinogen –> trypsin –> trypsin + FB
chymotrypsinogen –> trypsin –> chymotryp
procarboxypeptidase –> trypsin –> carboxpeptidase
proteins –> proteases –> aa and peptides
- intestinal wall (enterocytes using microvilli)
- carbs: oligosach and disach –> oligosaccdases disachdases –> monosach.
sucrose –> sucrase –> gluc + fruct
lactose —> lactase –> gluc + galact
maltose –> maltase –> gluc + gluc - proteins: peptides –> aminopeptidases + dipeptidases –> smaller peptides and aa
- lipids –> none, no lipase on intestinal wall
- carbs: oligosach and disach –> oligosaccdases disachdases –> monosach.
REGULATION of Pancreatic Enzyme Secretion
presence of aa and fatty acids in the duodenum
- release of CCK
- increases gallbladder rel. of bile.
- decreases gastric secretion and motility.
- increases pancreatic enzyme rel.
@ SI, WHAT CAN BE ABSORBED?
- carbs: none olgosach and disach too big
- lipids: yes FA and Monoglycerides
- proteins: yes to aa no to peptides
Lactase Deficiency
lactose intolerance, bacteria fermentation, gas and diarrhea, no lactose digestion
celiac disease
gluten damages villi and decrease SA, bacteria fermentation, gas and diarrhea
Small Intestine ABSORPTION
where most absorption occurs
to enterocyte and out of enterocyte to blood or lymph.
gluctose and galactose –> 2 AT –> fac. trans
fructose –> fac trans –> fac trans
aa –> 2 AT –> fac trans
di + tri peptides –> endocytosis –> aa –> 2 AT –> fac trans
Monoglyc, FA >12C, fat sol vita, cholesterol –> simp diff –> exocytosis and diff into lymph lacteal
FA <12C –> simp diff –> diff blood
H20 –> osmosis –> osmosis(blood and lymph)
water Abs in SI
9000 ml/day enters the SI. 7000 ml from secretions and 2000 from diet. 500 goes to the LI. where 100 lost in the feces
where do the nutrients go from the SI
hepatic portal vein in the liver
lacteal –> thoracic ducts –> left subclavian vein
Bile is made of…
water
bile salts
bile pigments from bilirubin (RBC breakdown)
cholesterol
ions (HCO3)
detoxified inactivated drugs, toxins, hormones
function of bile salts
emulsify fats into smaller droplets
create a micelle keeps fats in the solution (bile salts and phospholipids)
- hydrophobic inner
- hydrophillic outer
micelle diffuses to enterocyte –> FA and MGS diffuse into the enterocyte
@ the enterocyte
FAs and MG –> FA DIGLYC (in SER) -TRIGLYC –> proteins, cholesterol, and phospholipids added in Golgi –> cholymicron (watersol) –> exocytosis –> lymph
Gastric motility/secretion
3 regulatory phases
1. cephalic phase: preparing stomach for food
- smell, thought, sight, taste.
PSNS + enteric (mostly PSNS)
- increase in gastric acid, gastric enzymes, motility, and gastrin secretion
- gastric phase
food in stomach, activates stretch receptors
same thing as before except mostly enteric
- aa and FA trigger presence of food
- Ca, alcohol, caffeine, aa, peptides may increase digestion too
stops when pH is below 3
- Intestinal Phase
- controls rate of which chyme (bolus + gastric juice) enters the SI.- stop ovewhelming the SI with tonicity
- proper reabs.
- acid can be neutralized
- intially, duodenal stretch causes an increase in gastric acid for a short time.
- inhibitory signals cause
- decrease in gastric motil by…
CCK rel
enterogastric reflex (enteric NS): triggered by aa/peptides, acid, duodenal stretch, hypertonicity
–> done directly or via CNS to SNS. - decrease in gastric secretion
Secretin and CCK
- decrease in gastric motil by…
Hormones
Gastrin (stomach and duodenum): increase gastric acid and enzyme secretion
secretin: (duodenum) decrease gastrin secretion and increase HCO3 secretion
CCK: (duodenum) due to aa and fa. increase gallbladder contraction, pancreatic enzyme secretion, decrease gastric motil and secretion.
Large intestine MOTILITY
haustral contractions: weak and slow allow reabs of salts and water and mixing,
mass movements: due to food in stomach, power waves from the gastrocolic reflex pushing food from the tranverse colon to the rectum.
fecal mass in rectum cause the urge to poop.
Rectal defecation reflex
stim: feces in rectum
CNS: sacral segment of spinal cord PSNS
effector: smooth muscle of the rectal walls,
internal sphincter relaxes
external sphincter contracts (skel m. voluntary) not part of reflex
Large Intestine DIGESTION
none, fermentation or creation of vitamins (b5,b6,k,folate,biotin)
Large Intestine ABSORPTION
400, 100 lost in feces.
Na via active transport
some fermentation products (gases, vitamins)
drugs, rectally (anaesthetics)
