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Go over slide 2 & 3

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damn already

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What are gastrointestinal processes governed by? (4)

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volume and composition of luminal contents and external stimuli
- The body is designed to absorb all the nutrients that are ingested, whether or not the body really needs them to function.

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What does submucosal plexus do? (5)

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controls secretion

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What does myenteric plexus do? (5)

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controls motility

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Which division of the nervous system increases digestion? (5)

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the parasympathetic nervous system

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How does food move through the GI tract? (5)

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peristalsis
- circular and longitudinal muscles working together

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Where is the integrating center of short reflexes? (6)

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in the enteric nervous system
(nerve plexuses)

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Where is the integrating center of long reflexes? (6)

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in the central nervous system

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What short reflexes come from the ENS? (6)

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peristalsis and secretion

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What long reflexes come from the CNS? (6)

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hunger, salivation in response to smell

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What is chewing controlled by? (9)

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by somatic nerves to skeletal muscles

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What activates chewing? (9)

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Rhythmic chewing motion reflexively activated by pressure of food against gums, tongue, roof of mouth.

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What is the function of chewing? (9)

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mechanically breaks down food to make is small enough to swallow

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What is saliva produced by? (9)

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salivary glands

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What is saliva controlled by? (9)

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sympathetic & parasympathetic neurons
- Reflex that can be conditioned by other cues (Pavlov)

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What is the function of saliva? (9)

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moisten and lubricate food
- small amounts of digestion
- dissolves small amounts

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What stimulates swallowing? (10)

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food/liquid being pushed to back of the mouth

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What lets food into the stomach? (11)

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lower esophageal sphincter

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What are the functions of the stomach? (12)

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  • stores food
  • some digestion
  • motility for churning
  • regulate entrance into the small intestine
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What does the stomach secrete? (12)

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HCl

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What does HCl do? (12)

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  • kills bacteria
  • denatures proteins
  • converts pepsinogens to pepsins
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What do pepsins do? (12)

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digestive enzymes that breakdown proteins

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What is chyme? (12)

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solution left after digestion in stomach. Contains fragments of proteins and polysaccharides as well as droplets of fat, salts, water, etc.

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Go over slide 13 & 14

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ok

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Why does gastrin lead to an upregulation of proton pumps? (15)
gastrin releases hydrochloric acid when food enters the stomach leading to an upregulation of the pumps
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Why does ACh lead to an upregulation of proton pumps? (15)
parasympathetic nervous system releases HCl? ACh muscarinic receptors are apart of PSNS
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What stimulates chief cells? (16)
enteric nervous system
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Why do chief cells release inactive pepsinogen? (16)
so it doesnt degrade itself
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When is pepsin activated? (16)
at high proton concentrations
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What does peristalsis in the stomach do? (17)
mix the contents and close the pyloric sphincter
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Why is it important that small amounts of chyme is released into the small intestine at a time? (17)
it increases the efficiency of digestion and absorption because it cannot handle it all at once
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What does the pancreas secrete? (19)
- insulin and glucagon (endocrine) - bicarbonate and digestive enzymes (exocrine)
33
Go over slide 20
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What does the liver secrete? (21)
bicarbonate and bile salts
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What does the liver secrete? (21)
bicarbonate and bile salts
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What dies bile do? (21)
emulsify fats - breaks it up so it can disperse in a solution
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What does the hepatic portal vein do? (21)
delivers absorbed nutrients to the liver for processing before they enter the general systemic circulation.
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What does the liver do? (21)
- Removes old red blood cells. Hemoglobin processing generates bilirubin. - Synthesizes plasma proteins
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What is the function of the gallbladder? (22)
stores bile
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What is the function of the small intestine? (22)
digestion and absorption
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What does the small intestine secrete? (22)
- digestive enzymes (amino peptides) - salt and water (maintain fluidity) - mucus (lubrication and protection)
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What are segmentation contractions? (24)
Most frequent contractions in duodenum; least frequent in last portion of ileum. (breaks up food)
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How does peristalsis and segmentation contraction differ? (24)
no longitudinal muscle in segmentation (continue to breaks up food and mix it with digestive enzymes rather than movement down digestive system)
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What is the function of the large intestine? (25)
- mostly storage and compaction of waste - Active transport of Na+ with absorption of water. - Contains bacteria that breakdown some undigested matter.
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What do mass movement contractions do? (25)
compacts feces (3-4 times a day)
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What is defecation? (25)
- Material moves to rectum. Mechanoreceptors signal urge to defecate. - Voluntary control of external anal sphincter is learned during childhood.
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What is the function of villi and microvilli? (26)
increase surface area for digestion and absorption
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What are lacteals? (26)
the smallest vessels of the lymphatic system
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What do sensors/neurons do? (26)
coordinate movement and secretion
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What is the only kind of saccharide that can be absorbed? (27)
monosaccharides
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What are disaccharidases? (27)
enzymes that breakdown dissacharides
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What are disaccharidases? (27)
enzymes that breakdown dissacharides
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Go over slide 18
*thumbs up*
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How would glucose get absorbed? (28)
secondary active transport
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How do monosaccharides get into the interstitial fluid? (28)
facilitated diffusion
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What do endopeptidases do? (29)
breaks peptide in the middle - 400 into two 200s
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What do exopeptidases do? (29)
breaks off one amino acid at a time - 400 into one 399 and one 1
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How do protons get into the lumen? (30)
parietal cells in the stomach release protons that make their way to the small intestines lumen
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Where does digestion almost exclusively take place? (31)
small intestine
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What digestive enzyme breaks down fats? (31)
pancreatic lipase
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what does pancreatic lipase yield? (31)
2 fatty acids and a monoglyceride
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Where does lipase work? (31)
only at the surface of liquid droplets (needed for emulsification)
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What are micelles? (32)
smallest droplet from emulsion - free fatty acids and monoglycerides
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how are fatty acids and monoglycerides absorbed? (32)
diffusion - then recombine inside the cell to from triglycerides (fat)
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How are water-soluble vitamins absorbed? (34)
diffusion or mediated transport
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What is celiac disease? (34)
- Loss of intestinal absorption surface due to gluten sensitivity - Decreases absorption of nutrients
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What is pernicious anemia? (34)
- Stomach portion has been removed or doesn’t secrete intrinsic factor - Vitamin B12 not absorbed - B12 required for erythrocyte formation

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