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Gastrointestinal & Metabolism Systems Flashcards

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Tongue?

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Taste, hold food in place.

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Mouth?

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Mastication to form bolus, has salivary amylase.

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Dentition?

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Heterodentition, carnacials, incisors, molars, fat warmed in mouth.

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Esophagus?

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Voluntary at top, lower portion involuntary.

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Epiglottis?

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Elastic flap covers trachea.

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Peristalsis?

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Rhythmic, wavelike muscle contract.

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Stomach?

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Cardia top, pyloris = inferior, fundus = belly, food digested in the stomach becomes chyme.

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Gastric Rugae?

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Folds inside the stomach to increase surface area.

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3 Layer Muscle?

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Diagonal, longitudinal, circular.

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Cardiac Valve?

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At the top of the stomach, prevents food from going back up into esophagus.

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Pyloric Valve?

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At the end of the stomach, prevents food from passing by into the small intestine too early.

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Goblet Cells?

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Secrete mucus.

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HCI?

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Activates pepsinogen to make pepsin, made by the parietal cells.

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Pepsin?

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Produced by chief cells (inactive as pepsinogen), break down protein.

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Vili?

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  • Small fingerlike projections to increase the surface area of the intestines.
  • Vili contain lacteals (lymph vessel to absorb fats), and blood vessels to absorb other nutrient.
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Microvili?

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Additional cilia like structure on membrane Vili.

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Crypts?

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Produce digestive juices.

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Intestinal Flora?

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Good, healthy bacteria living in gut, should be refrigerated if used in a supplement, flora depends on the person’s diet.

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Gall Bladder?

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Holds & stores bile until appropriate time to release it into the system.

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Emulsification?

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The process of breaking down fats to allow them to combine with water.

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Cholecystekinin (CCK)?

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Hormone used to trigger the release of bile from eating fatty foods

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Ampula of Vater?

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Opening in the small intestine where the gall bladder drains into the digestive system.

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Sphincter of Oddi?

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Ring shaped sphincter muscle used to closer the valve at the Ampula of Vater.

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Common Bile Duct?

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Drains the bile from the gallbladder into the digestive system, also shared with the pancreas.

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Liver Functions?
* carbohydrate metabolism: maintains blood glucose & glycogen stores. * lipid metabolism: triglyceride & cholesterol formed & processed. * protein metabolism: coverts protein amine waste to urea to be excreted. * processes drugs & hormones. * excretes bilirubin/ bile. * stores vitamins & minerals: especially Vit. A, B12, D, K, iron, & copper. * activate vitamin D.
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Phase 1?
Convert original compound into a toxic intermediate.
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Phase 2?
Naturalize the toxic intermediate.
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Fiber?
Used to form bulk & scrub the colon. Bind & remove bile & cholesterol, will speed motility and help absorb excess water.
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Bacteria?
VERY HIGH NUMBERS OF BACTERIA IN COLON, used to assist with digestive process. For example just over half the vitamin K we need is produced by bacteria.
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Rectum?
Used to store waste products until the body is able to excrete them.
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Anus?
External opening to the digestive system.
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Internal Sphincter?
Involuntary control.
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External Sphincter?
Voluntary control.
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Absorption - Small & Medium Fats?
Absorbed into the blood stream, go through the hepatic portal circulation in the blood stream.
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Absorption - Carbohydrates & Proteins?
Into the blood & hepatic portal circulation with small & medium fats.
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Absorption - Large Fats?
Absorbed in the sm. intestines into lacteals, lacteals join the lymph & bypass the hepatic portal circulation.
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Absorption - Water & Minerals?
Absorbed in the colon.
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VLDL (Very Low Density Lipoprotein)?
* made in liver, transports triglyceride to adipose tissue. | * deposit some lipid in adipose and then become LDL.
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LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein)?
* about 75% of total cholesterol. | * is taken to cells to do repair, used for steroids & bile.
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HDL?
•removes excess cholesterol from liver for elimination.
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Catabolism?
Reactions that break things down.
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Anabolism?
Reactions that build things up.
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Glycolysis?
* Glucose (6C) -> 2 pyruvate (3C) * anaerobic * Net gain of 2 ATP at the end * Insulin promotes glycolysis * glucagon promotes gluconeogenesis
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Cori Cycle?
Pyruvate -> lactic acid (lactate), anaerobic.
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Krebs Cycle?
* Pyruvate -> converted to Acetyl Co A & releases Carbon dioxide * As it is broken down, releases NADH, GTP, FADH2, CO2 * Required oxygen
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Electron Transport Chain?
* Used to convert other high energy molecules to a currency we can use (convert to ATP) * Each NADH gives 3 ATP, each FADH2 gives 2 ATP, GTP gives 1 ATP * 1 glucose gets an additional 34 ATP, plus the 2 ATP from glycolysis for a total of 36 ATP * Occurs in mitochondria
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Glucogenic Amino Acids?
Enter into the glucogenic amino acids, can be converted to glucose or pyruvate depending on which amino acid.
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Ketogenic Amino Acids?
Enter in at acetyl co A, can only proceed forward, cannot be converted back into glucose or acetyl co A, produce ketone by product.
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Fatty Acids?
Glycerol from the glycerol back bone on the fatty acid is broken down with the carbohydrates.
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Glycerol from Triglycerides?
Enter in 2 carbon at a time at Acetyl CoA.
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Deamination & Protein Breakdown?
* Amino acids are deaminated in the liver | * Amino groups is converted to urea, then sent to kidney to be removed in urine.
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Feasting Metabolism?
* promotes fat formation * excess fat only uses 5% of it's energy intake to convert it to fat * carbohydrates use 25% of the calories to convert them to fat * surplus protein is deaminated, fat is displaced in the fuel mix, protein not used is converted to fat.
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Fasting Metabolism?
* nervous system must use glucose * 1/5 or 20% of daily intake goes to fuel brain * RBCs also need glucose
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Symptoms of Starvation?
* muscle wasting * decreased metabolism * decreased body temperature * decrease resistance to disease * ketosis: decrease the appetite

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