Gastrointestinal Tract (GIT)

Question 1

Function of GI Glands

Question 2

What is a Gland?

Question 3

Acinus

Question 4

Forms of Exocrine glands

Question 5

Difference between endocrine and exocrine glands

Question 6

Example of exocrine glands

Answer 6

Sweat

Question 7

Esophagus

Question 8

Metaplastic Gastric Glands

Answer 8

Gastric glands moving up into the esophagus in response to repeated gastric juice exposure
Monitor (endoscopic)
Goblet Cell formation - intestinal metaplasia*

Question 9

Intestinal Metaplasia

Answer 9

Can process into esophageal adenocarcinoma

Presence of Goblet Cells ion esophagus

Question 10

Answer 10

Transition from esophagus to stomach

Question 11

Adenocarcinoma

Answer 11

glandular cancer

Question 12

Divisions of the stomach

Answer 12

Fundus - top
Body - middle
Pylorus - bottom - connects to duodenum

Question 13

Function of stomach

Answer 13

Mix of exocrine and endocrine
Digestion of food
Secretion of hormones into blood

Question 14

Foveolar epithelium

Answer 14

Simple Columnar Epithelium

Question 15

Stomach

Answer 15

Gastric Pits

Glands beneath the pits

Question 16

Cells of the Stomach

Answer 16

Mucous (foveolar)
Parietal
Chief
Enteroendocrine

Question 17

T/F: stomach polyp’s are benign

Answer 17

TRUE

Question 18

Answer 18

Necrotic cells

Question 19

Answer 19

Signet Ring Cells

Malignent cells full of mucous, nucleus being squished

Question 20

Main function of small intestine

Question 21

Short gut syndrome

Answer 21

surgery to remove small bowel
cannot absorb nutrients anymore
>100 cm small bowel removed

Question 22

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Question 24

Unicellular glands of the Intestine (and function)

Answer 24

Goblet cells

Paneth cells

Question 25

Glands unique to Duodenum

Answer 25

Brunner's Glands - compound tubular | Secrete basic substance (neutralization of stomach acid)

Question 26

Function of Colon

Answer 26

Absorption of WATER

Question 27

Colon Polyps: low grade dysplasia

Answer 27

cannot spread

Question 28

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Answer 28

1. Crohn's Disease | 2. Ulcerative Colitis

Question 29

Colon Polyps: High grade dysplasia

Answer 29

Need to be removed

Question 30

Difference between Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis

Question 31

Salivary glands

Question 32

Lysozyme

Question 33

Pancreas has SEPTAE or TRABECULAE

Answer 33

SEPTAE

Question 34

Islets of Langerhans

Answer 34

Endocrine portion of Pancreas

Question 35

Proteins that the liver synthesizes

Question 36

Exocrine cells of pancreas

Answer 36

compound acinar

Question 37

Portal Triad

Answer 37

Allows hepatocyte hook up to biliary tree and ??

Question 38

Portal tracts of Liver

Answer 38

Vein Artery Bile duct Lymphatic vessel

Question 39

Answer 39

Liver cirrhosis

Question 40

T/F: Gallbladder has Goblet Cells

Answer 40

FALSE