Smith Flashcards
(91 cards)
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What is dysbiosis?
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microbial imbalances on or inside the body
2
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Is there dysbiosis in a healthy status? What is there?
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Healthy Status
Normal behavior, emotion, nociception
Normal levels of inflammatory cells & mediators
Normal gut microbiota
3
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Is there dysbiosis in a stressed state?
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Stress/Disease
Changes in behavior, cognition, emotion, nociception
Altered levels of inflammatory cells & mediators
Intestinal dysbiosis
4
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What is the effect of sympathetic stimulation on the gut?
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decrease in secretions & peristalsis
blood redirected away from the gut & to other places like the brain
NE released
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What is the effect of parasympathetic stimulation on the gut?
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increase in secretions & peristalsis
ACh released
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What are some of the things that can affect the gut?
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bacteria toxins/chemicals parasites hormones nutrients
7
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What percentage of the vagus nerve is sensory?
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80-90%
8
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Self-contained inside the gut are what neurons?
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IPANs: intrinsic primary afferent neuron
9
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What portions of the GI does the vagus innervate?
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stomach
SI
1/3 of colon
10
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What are some afferent nerves that supply the GI that go thru the paravertebral/prevertebral ganglia to get there? Where are their cell bodies located?
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Greater splanchnic nerve
Lumbar colonic nerve
Hypogastric nerve
DRG
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Where are the cell bodies of the afferent vagal fibers?
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nodose ganglia
12
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Where are the cell bodies of the pelvic nerves found?
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in the DRG of the sacral region of the spinal cord
13
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What are the 3 pathways that connect the gut to the CNS?
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- Vagal afferents–>upper GI
- Pelvic afferents–>colorectal (colon, rectum, internal anal sphincter)
- splanchnic afferents–>throughout GI tract, nociceptive
* *pudendal nerves
14
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What percentage of the splanchnic nerve fibers are afferent? Where are their cell bodies found?
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7%
Cell bodies in the DRG
15
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Some of the extrinsic afferent nerves are chemosensitive & some are not. What are these chemical agents that some are sensitive to?
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ATP bradykinin capsaicin 5-HT histamine
16
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What are the differences b/w a generator potential & an action potential?
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Generator Potential: graded; larger stimulus-->larger potential-->large frequency of AP firing; but if doesn't meet threshold-->no AP **dependent on coupled transmitters doesn't propagate-->local phenomenon no refractory period AP: all or none refractory period propagation
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What is the process of a spinal reflex?
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Visceral Afferent Neuron Interneuron (in spinal cord) Pregang efferent Postgang efferent Effector
18
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What counts as mechanical stimuli in the gut?
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stretch
pressure
distortion
shearing forces
19
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What counts as signaling molecules released from Peyer’s patches in the gut?
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Proteases
histamine
serotonin
cytokines
20
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What types of luminal contents would signal enteroendocrine cells to release gut peptides?
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nutrients
toxins
antigens
21
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What types of gut peptides would enteroendocrine cells release?
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hormones
neuropeptides
22
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What areas of the brain are activated by the gut peptides released by enteroendocrine cells?
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area prostrema
dostral vagal complex
hypothalamus
23
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What is the function of endocrine cells in the GI tract?
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They are detectors that analyze luminal contents, survey mucosal status, & activate afferent neurons.
24
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What are 5 examples of endocrine cells in the GI tract?
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I cells in duodenum S cells in stomach & intestine EE cells in gut EC cells lymphoid tissue
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What do the I cells in the duodenum release? When do they release it? What happens next?
CCK
released in response to fat & protein digestion
CCK causes satiation; increases gastric blood flow & mucous protection
CCK inhibits gastric motility & emptying
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What do the S cells in the stomach & intestine release? When does it release it? What is the response?
Release Secretin
in response to duodenal acidification
It enhances pancreatic exocrine secretion & bile flow.
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What do the enteroendocrine cells in the gut do?
Release up to 20 different kinds of neuropeptides that can stimulate the vagal afferents in a paracrine fashion or the brain in an endocrine fashion
28
Where is most of the serotonin in the body stored?
90% of 5-HT stored in EC cells
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What stimulates EC cells to release their stores? What do they store? What is the effect?
mechanical & chemical stimulation
5-HT/serotonin
Activates peristalsis (intrinsic)
Activates relaxation of the stomach (extrinsic afferent neurons)
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Where is the lymphoid tissue found in the gut? What cell types are found here?
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Peyer's patches
antigen-sampling M cells
macrophages
eosinophils
neutrophils
mast cells
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Of the gut nerves we have been talking about...which are sympathetic? Parasympathetic?
Sympathetic: Splanchnic nerves, Hypogastric nerves
Parasympathetic: Vagus, Pelvic nerves
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What percentage of sympathetic nerves are afferent fibers?
What percentage of the vagus nerve?
Pelvic nerves?
Sympathetic: 20% afferent
Vagus: 80% afferent
Pelvic: 50% afferent
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What do the vagal neurons sense?
pH & distention of the stomach
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What do the pelvic neurons sense?
distention of the rectum & colon
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Which set of visceral afferent nerve fibers senses pain in the gut?
Sympathetic nerves--splanchnic nerves
| nociception
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What does splanchnic stimulation elicit? Vagal stimulation?
Splanchnic: pain!!
Vagal: nothing.
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Which set of afferent nerve fibers regulate visceral tone, distention, motility & secretion?
Parasympathetic: vagal & pelvic
38
What conditions include chronic visceral pain? How is this treated?
cancer
severe peripheral vascular disease
Surgically sectioning sympathetic nerve trunks, but not parasympathetic nerve trunks
39
What are there more of:
visceral sensory neurons
mechanosensory neurons?
What is the result of this?
10X as many mechanosensory neurons
| Result: visceral sensations are diffuse & difficult to localize
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Describe the neuron type of vagal & spinal afferents.
pseudounipolar
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Describe the neuron type of IPANs.
multipolar
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Where are IPANs found? What do they sense?
found only in the intestine & gut
| sense mucosal stimulation & stretch
43
The vagus returns info to the brainstem via what? What type of info?
nucleus tractus solitarius
BP
CO2
Gut distention
44
What is another name for tonic mechanoreceptors? What's the deal with them?
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Wide Dynamic Range
tonic activity @ rest
responds to contraction/distention
**it signals filling of: stomach, colon, rectum
**discomfort/pain in: organ inflammation
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What is another name for high threshold mechanoreceptors? What's the deal with them?
Phasic
low activity @ rest
responds to high levels of organ distention
**chemosensitive to inflammatory mediators
**receptive fields in serosa & mesentery
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What are some inflammatory mediators?
BK, eicanosoids, free radicals
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What are silent nociceptors sometimes considered? What's the deal with them?
sometimes considered chemonociceptors
silent @ rest
mechanosensitive during inflammation via inflammatory mediators
In colon mucosa: sensitive to luminal chemicals & fine tactile stimulation
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What are IMAs?
Intramuscular arrays
individual branch of a vagal afferent fiber
vagal mechanoreceptors that innervate GI smooth muscle
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What are IGLEs?
intraganglionic laminar endings
vagal afferent fiber terminating in several intraganglionic laminar endings
mechanotransduction sites of vagal tension receptors in stomach
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What are IVAs?
mucosa intravillous arbors
| chemical receptors in mucosal units
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How can the 5-HT released by enterochromaffin cells in the gut end up in general circulation?
if it is taken up into portal blood & taken up into platelets via SERT. Then it won't be degraded by MAO. It can go into the liver & then into general circulation.
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What type of a reflex is emesis?
a somato-autonomic reflex
| integrated in the medulla oblongata
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What 2 drugs target 5-HT3 receptors to stop emesis? Which part of the pathway is this? What is one situation that they don't work particularly well in?
Ondansetron
Granisetron
**this is where the serotonin released by EC cells in the SI activates the vagal afferent neurons
**palliative care
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What is often taken in Parkinson's disease treatment that increases vomiting?
dopamine agonist
55
At which points in the pathway of emesis is dopamine involved?
There are dopamine receptors in the CTZ, NTS, & stomach vagus neurons.
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How do the drugs metoclopramide & domperidone inhibit emesis?
They are both dopamine receptor antagonists. They work on dopamine receptors in the stomach & upper SI.
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What is haloperidol & where does it work?
It is a dopamine antagonist & it works in the CTZ.
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What is cyclizine & where does it work to stop emesis?
antihistamine & antimuscarinic drug.
| works in the brainstem.
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What are 2 kinda broad drugs that inhibit emesis?
levomepromazine & prochlorperazine
60
What are the 2 diseases under the umbrella of inflammatory bowel disorders?
Crohn's disease
| Ulcerative Colitis
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What portion of the GI tract is affected in Crohn's disease? What are the common symptoms?
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SI & LI
abdominal pain
vomiting
diarrhea
blood in stool
fatigue
weight loss
growth problems
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What does the bowel of a Crohn's patient look like when it is affected? What are the extreme things that can happen to the bowel?
cobblestone appearance of the mucosa (from linear ulcerations)
patchy inflammation that extends into all the tissue layers
Extreme Results: fistulas, absecesses, strictures
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WIth IBD what's the deal?
the immune system is overreacting to normal bacteria and causing a ton of inflammation
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What portion of the GI tract is mainly affected w/ ulcerative colitis? What are the symptoms?
LI
bloody diarrhea
abdominal cramping
urgent need for bowel movement
65
What are 2 common types of ulcers?
gastric ulcers--stomach
| duodenal ulcers--SI
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What causes gastric ulcers?
H. Pylori that is usu fine in the stomach sometimes causes inflammation. When this happens tissue is damaged & ulcers form & pain results.
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Irritable Bowel Syndrome is considered a functional gastrointestinal disorder. What happens w/ this? What is thought to cause it?
strong contractile activity of the gut
| visceral afferent nerve hypersensitivity is thought to be the cause...
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Aside from visceral afferent hypersensitivity what are other possible causes?
Neurotransmitter imbalance
infection
psychosocial factors
altered bowel motility
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What are the symptoms of IBS?
abdominal pain with changes in frequency of bowel movements.
Diarrhea or constipation or both
whitish mucus in stool
bloated abdomen
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T/F Inflammation is involved in IBS as well as IBD.
FALSE. only IBD.
| NOT IBS. Thus, IBS is less serious in terms of long term consequences.
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Gastric ulcers & gastritis both cause inflammation in the stomach. What does this do to visceral sensitivity?
This causes visceral hypersensitivity to gastric distention.
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Describes what happens in an injury to cause an increased sensitization of nociceptive fibers.
injury
inflammatory soup (from injured cells & other cells)
Sensitization of nociceptive fibers
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What types of substances, present in the inflammatory soup, cause pain?
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K+
H+
ATP
Bradykinin
Histamine
Prostaglandins
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If after an injury the firing gets really intense...what 2 substances might be released from afferent neurons?
Calcitonin Gene Related Peptide (CGRP)
| Substance P
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What are TRP receptors?
they are transient receptive potential receptors
* *found on afferent neurons
* *responsive to temp
* *responsive to certain substances, like capsaicin
* *when these things activate the TRP there is a transient depolarization of the terminal membrane
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What is hyperalgesia?
exaggerated pain in response to a painful stimulus
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What is allodynia?
pain in response to an innocuous stimulus
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What is secondary hyperalgesia?
a receptive field expansion that enables input from non-injured tissue to cause pain
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What causes all these things: hyperalgesia, allodynia?
Central sensitization
an increase in synaptic efficacy & a decrease in inhibition; central amplification
Basically, you're injured & now you have a low threshold for sensory inputs to effect a pain circuit.
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What is the convergence theory of referred pain?
This theory recognized that somatic sensory fibers & visceral sensory fibers both have cell bodies in the same DRG in the spinal cord & synapse w/ the same interneurons.
Sometimes the brain just can't discriminate.
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Explain the basic idea behind visceral organ cross-sensitization.
2 inputs converge on the same second order spinal neuron in the spinal cord...one is insulted & the other is also amplified
This often happens b/w the colon & bladder...people w/ IBS also have bladder hypersensitivity b/c of cross-sensitization.
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What is congenital analgesia?
rare genetic disorder in which you can't feel pain
| life-threatening b/c you have no warning mechanism!!
83
Describe the Gate Control Theory of Pain.
It involves a gating mechanism located in the dorsal horn of the spinal cord.
Inhibitory neuron in spinal cord acts as the gate.
projection cells go to the brain & signal pain.
Large nerve fibers stimulate both inhibitory & projection & therefore no pain is felt. This means that there was a normal stimulus.
Small nerve fibers (nociceptive) inactivates the inhibitor & activates the projection. Gate open.
Descending pathways from the brain can stop some of this pain.
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Describe when opiods can & cannot be good options for treatment of gut pain.
Opiods suppress pain.
Good: if you have painful diarrhea b/c a side effect is constipation.
Bad: if elderly or have other complications b/c constipation is a major side effect along with a number of others.
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What are the 3 opiod-derivatives that are approved by the FDA?
loperamide
diphenoxylate
difenoxin
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What are 3 sources of cannabinoids? What is the ligand that makes it up?
Endogenous
Synthetic
Plant-derived
*anandamide
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What are the 2 beneficial receptors that anandamide activates? What are the effects?
CB1: antiulcer, reduction in gastric & intestinal motility, reduction in intestinal secretions
CB2: reduction in cytokines, visceral pain & contractility
**can be useful to treat the inflammation of IBD
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What receptor that is bad can be activated if you smoke too much marijuana? What are the results?
TRPV 1
This increases inflammation, contractility, & hypersecretion.
Can cause vomiting, polydipsia, desire to take repeated hot showers.
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What is SSRI? Lidocaine?
SSRI: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
Lidocaine: local anesthetic
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What is dysbiosis?
a condition w/ microbial imbalances inside or on the body; prominent in GI & on skin
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T/F Sensitization of sensory pathways during acute episodes of gastroenteritis contributes to the development of postinfectious functional GI disorders.
True.
