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What does it mean to be an exocrine organ?

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Secrete onto free surfaces usually through a duct (always performed by epithelial cells)

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What are the three cellular mechanisms for exocrine secretion?

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1-Merocrine
2-holocrine
3-apocrine

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Exocytosis of a vesicle and membrane transport of salts and water such as in sweat and salivary glands is which mechanism of secretion?

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Merocrine

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Entire cell ruptures such as in sebaceous glands is which secretion mechanism?

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Holocrine

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Pinching off of the apical cell portion is which secretion mechanism?

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Apocrine

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What two structural types of glands are there?

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Simple and compound (branches)

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What are the two main types of secretory portions called?

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  • tubular (short long or coiled)

- acinar/alveolar (round or sacklike)

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Colon crypts glands are what shape?

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Simple tubular

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Stomach glands are what shape?

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Simple branches tubular

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Sweat glands are what shape?

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Simple coiled tubular

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The urethral glands are what shape?

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Simple acinar

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Sebaceous glands are what shape?

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Simple branched acinar

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A proenzyme or inactive enzyme precursor is called what?

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Zymogen (it is activated by removal of a peptide section)

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Why is the zymogen form the one that is stored?

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So that the pancreas isn’t damaged

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What activates trypsinogen to be trypsin in the duodenal lumen?

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Enterokinase

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What makes the pancreas a mixed endocrine-exocrine organ?

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Produces digestive enzymes as well as hormones

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How much is secreted into the duodenum each day, stimulated by CCK and secretin?

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1.5 L

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What two major digestive proteins are secreted by the pancreas?

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Trypsinogen and chymotrypsin

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Cystic fibrosis can make the production of which enzymes difficult in the pancreas?

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a-Amylase
Lipases
Elastase
Nucleases

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What two things help keep enzymes inactive in the pancreas?

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Low pH in acini

Trypsin inhibitor

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What are he main exocrine cells of the pancreas?

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Acinar cells
Centroacinar cells

They drain into intercalated ducts

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What does the secretin stimulated HCO3 do in the ducts?

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Hydrate, flush and alkanize secretions

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What is another name for acinar cells?

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Zymogenic cells

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Simple cuboidal cells roughly the size of acini are characteristic of what type of duct?

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Intralobulated ducts

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Simple columnar cells found in CT is typical of what type of duct?
Interlobulated ducts
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What does it mean to be an endocrine organ?
Secretes into the blood (performed by epithelial and nonepithelial)
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What are the masses of endocrine cells of the pancreas called?
Islets of langerhans
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What three things are characteristic of islet of langerhans cells?
1-polygonal shape 2-smaller 3-stains lighter than acinar cells
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What are the three major cells in the islets of langerhans?
Alpha, beta, delta
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What do alpha cells secrete?
Glucagon (make up 30%)
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What do beta cells secrete?
Insulin (make up 65%)
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What do delta cells secrete?
Somatostatin (make up about 4%) which inhibits alpha and beta cells
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Activated zymogens that start auto digesting the pancreas is called what?
Acute pancreastitis
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What type of cancer comprises 3% of cancers in the US, is more common in females, and has a poor prognosis?
Pancreatic carcinoma
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Disruption in insulin signaling and loss of or malfunction of B cells leads to what?
Diabetes mellitus
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What major blood proteins does he liver synthesize?
``` Albumin Transferrin Fibrinogen Prothrombin Angiotensinogen ```
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Lipids and lipoproteins are synthesized where? Such as cholesterol, FA, LDL, VLDL
Liver
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What 4 things does the liver store?
1-Glucose as glycogen 2-lipids as fat droplets 3-far soluble vitamins 4-iron
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What are three other liver functions?
1-Modification rxns (redox, conjugation) 2-elimination (billirubin) 3-lipid digestion (exocrine function)
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What two flows of blood are there?
1-Nutrient rich, oxygen poor portal vein (75%) | 2-oxygen rich hepatic artery (25%)
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The hepatic arterioles and the portal venule mix their blood in what space on their way to the central vein?
Sinusoid
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What is characteristic of zone 1?
- Freshest blood - biggest mitochondria - most active glucoronidation - most active endocytosis - highest regeneration
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What is characteristic of zone 3?
- Highest cytochrome p450 and redox rxn | - fat is deposited here
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How can you recognize a hepatocyte?
- Large cuboidal shape - large nucleus (sometimes double) - lots of mitochondria
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Fenestrated epithelial cells are found lining what hepatic space?
Sinusoids
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What fills the space of disse/perisinusoidal space?
Plasma
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What are kupffer cells?
Liver macrophages in sinusoidal lining that phagocytose old erythrocytes to free up heme and iron
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What do hepatic stellate cells do?
Store fat and far soluble vitamins and are found in space of disse
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What happens when myo fibroblasts are present?
- Region becomes capable of contraction and collagen synthesis - fibrosis - portal hypertension
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What empty into canals of hering?
Bile canaliculi
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What do hepatocytes secrete into?
Bile canaliculi
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What type of epithelial is found in the gall bladder?
Simple columnar epithelium
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What is bile?
Detergent that aids hydrolysis of fat allowing it to be absorbed
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What is enterohepatic recirculation?
Bile recycling
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What affect does CCK have on bile flow?
Stimulates it and induces contraction of smooth muscle to expel bile
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What affect does secretin have on bile ducts?
Causes secretion of bicarbonate into the bile
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Blockage of bile flow results in what?
Cholestasis
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Yellowing of skin and other tissues are signs of what?
Liver problems, specifically called jaundice
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What is gall bladder inflammation called?
Cholecystitis

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