Physiology Flashcards
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3 monosaccharides
Glucose
Galactose
Fructose
What bond joins monosaccharides
Glycosidic bond
What breaks down disaccharides
Brush border enzymes
Brush border enzymes are?
And examples
On apical membrane of epithelial membrane
Lactase
Sucrase
Maltase
What happens to monosaccharides
Products of breakdown and digestion
And absorbed by small intestine (small enough)
3 disaccharides examples
And what each is made up of ?
Lactose (glucose and galactose)
Sucrose (glucose and fructose)
Maltose (glucose and glucose)
3 polysaccharides
Starch
Cellulose
Glycogen
Starch is what?
2 types?
Made up of?
Plant storage form of glucose
Alpha-amylose - glucose in straight chains
Amylopectin - glucose in branched chains
Glucose linked by alpha 1,4 glycosidic bonds
Amylase breaks down what?
Found where? 2
Starch
Saliva
Pancreas
Cellulose?
What is it
Made up of?
Dietary fibre
Constituent of plant cell walls
Unbranched linear chains of glucose linked by beta 1,4 glycosidic bonds
Cellulase in body?
Only in certain bacteria found in large intestine
Not in any vertebrate
We need this bacteria to break down cellulose
Glycogen
What is it
Made up of?
Where?
Animal storage of glucose
Made up of glucose linked by 1,4 glycosidic bonds
Excess glucose is stored as glycogen in liver
Glucose blood level
5 mmol/L
Microvilli why have it?
Increase surface area and increase absorption of nutrients
2 membranes of epithelial cells
Apical
Basolateral |_|
2 epithelial cells separated by
Tight junction
Transcellular and paracellular means?
Transcellular- through cells
Paracellular - through tight junctions- between cells
Vectorial transport?
Needs what?
Transport across epithelial cell in one direction
Needs transporter proteins distributed between apical and basolateral membrane
These proteins are placed non randomly
Secondary active transport process means?
Moves 2 different molecules across membrane
Opposite ways maybe
What membrane proteins involved in transporting glucose and galactose across epithelial membrane in small I?
SGLT1 in apical membrane
GLUT2 in basolateral membrane for sugars
And
Na/KATPase pump
If transport is Na dependant what does it mean too?
Water also transported by osmosis in tight junction complex
What membrane proteins are involved in transporting fructose in small intestine epithelial cells?
And is it dependant?
GLUT5 in apical membrane
GLUT2 in basolateral membrane
Not dependant not even Na dependant
Amino acids linked by what?
Peptide bond
O=C-N-H
Small proteins are called?
Di/tri Peptides