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Criteria for a healthy gut

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  • effective digestion and absorption of food
  • absence of GI illness
  • normal and stable intestinal microbiota
  • effective immune system
  • status of well-being
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Digestive tract

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  • oral cavity
  • esophagus
  • stomach
  • small intestine
  • large intestine
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Accessory organs

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  • pancreas
  • liver
  • gallbladder
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Saliva

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water (99%), electrolytes, mucus, enzymes, antibacterial and antiviral compounds

  • enzymes
  • mucins
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Enzymes of the oral cavity secretions

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  • Salivary amylase (hydrolyzes a 1-4 bonds in starch)
  • Lingual lipase (hydrolyzes dietary triglycerides)
  • Lysozyme (antibacterial enzyme)
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Mucins

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glycoproteins that lubricate food and protect the oral mucosa

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Brushing teeth

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  • oral bacteria
  • dental carries, periodontal diseases, oral cancer
  • diabetes
  • Cardiovascular disease -oral microbiota in atherosclerotic plaques/ bacteria linked to cholesterol levels
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Stomach functions

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  • produces acid, enzymes and intrinsic factor and hormones
  • regulates hunger and satiety
  • relaxes and accommodates
  • protects itself from exogenous agents
  • mixes, grinds, and empties
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Damaging factors of the stomach

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  • systemic diseases
  • H. pylori
  • NSAIDS, asparin, SSRI
  • toxic foods
  • alcohol
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Structure of the stomach

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-GI motility dependent on contractility pattern

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Cells of the stomach

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  • Neck/mucous cells
  • chief cells
  • parietal cells
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Neck/mucous cells

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  • secretes mucus and lubricates the ingested GI contents

- protect the gastric mucosa from mechanical and chemical damage (bicarbonate release, pH 6-7 at mucosa

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Chief Cells

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  • Release pepsinogen
  • degraded to pepsin in the presence of acid
  • main proteolytic enzyme in the stomach (optimal pH ~3.5)
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Parietal Cells

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-secretes hydrochloric acid (HCl)

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Parietal cells Important in:

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  • activation of the zymogen pepsinogen to pepsin
  • denaturation of proteins
  • killing many bacteria ingested along with food
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Within parietal cell, HCl released by:

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  • gastrin released by G cells into the blood
  • acetylcholine released from vagus nerve
  • histamine released from GI mast cells
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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

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  • Reflux of stomach contents back into esophagus

- relaxation of gastroesophageal sphincter

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GERD can cause:

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  • Barrett’s esophagus
  • Chronic inflammation of esophagus
  • gastroesophageal reflux
  • is the cause of abou 1/3 of esophageal cancers
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Symptoms of Gerd

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Regulatory peptides: Gastrin

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  • synthesized by enteroendocrine cells called G-cells in the stomach and proximal small intestine
  • Stimulates the release of HCl
  • stimulates pepsinogen release
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What response leads to release of Gastrin?

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Released in response to vagal stimulation, ingestion of specific substances or nutrients, gastric distention, Hl in contact with gastric mucosa, local and circulation hormones

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Ghrelin

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  • produced in stomach
  • orexigenic hormone
  • elevated in the fasted state
  • increases appetite and food intake
  • rises after diet - induced weight loss
  • Annorexia & obese- dysregulaiton of ghrelin pathway
  • Gastric bypass - decrease
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Nutrients of Ghrelin

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  • CHO - suppresses
  • protein - suppresses?
  • Fat - no effect
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Orexigenic hormone

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stimulates food intake through hypothalamus, brainstrem

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Gut-Brain Axis
- Communication between the gut and the brain through nutrients,hormones, and nerves - also intestines
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Meal related signals: Gut-brain axis
- direct effect of food - increase in aa, glucose, and fa act directly on hypothalamus - visual - activats hypothalamus - neuronal - signals from physical measures - stomach distension - humoral- gut derived hormones
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Neuronal signal
- Signals from physical measures - stomach distension - the weight or volume of food determined by meal size - stretch receptors signal brain through vagus nerve to brainstem - neurons integrate sensory information from mouth GI tract, organs - forwarded to hypothalamus and integrated with long-term regulators
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Response to Nutrient Ingestion
1. food intake 2. gastric accommodation: intra-gastric pressure drop 3. further filling: intra-gastric pressure rise 4. activation of tension receptors in the proximal stomach 5. triggering of TLESRs 5. Meal induced satiety --> Termination of food intake
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Helicobacter Pylori
- Gram neg bacteria | - primary cause of ulcers
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H pylori symptoms
- pain - weight loss - loss of appetite - vomiting
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causes of ulcers
- smoking - high alcohol intake - stress - NSAIDS
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The small intestine
-Chyme moving from the stomach into the duodenum (initial pH 2)
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How is the duodenum protected against the gastric acidity?
- pancreati secretion of bicarbonate with buffering capacity - mucus containing secretions from Brunner's glands - viscous, alkaline (pH 8.2 - 9.3), protect the epithelial mucosa form damage
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4 tissue layers of the GI tract
- Mucosa (epithelial cells that live 2-5 days) - Submucosa- connective tissue (has blood vessels and nerves) - Muscularis - smooth muscle, mixes food - Serosa (connective tissue) - support and protection
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Function of the Gut Interface
- Filter with selective permeability -- allows for movement of needed nutrients from lumen into circulation - Barrier with selective permeability -- prevention of penetration by harmful microorganisms
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Components of the Intestinal Barrier
- unstirred water layer (rate-limiting step in transport of nutrients and drugs) - adhesive mucous gel layers (physical friction, chemical digestion, bacterial adhesion, diffusion barrier) - Water: mucosal surface interface (phospholipids, NSAIDS)
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Paracellular Uptake
- paracellular - unmediated passive diffusion - intestinal permeability increases following ingestion of hypertonic solution (food)
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Intestinal permeability
- the facility with which the intestinal epithelium allows molecules to pass through by non-mediated passive diffusion - paracellular
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Increase Permeability
- Ethanol and oxidants --> disrupt microtubules - TPN --> mucous gel layer is disrupted, hyperpermeability - saturated fat - green and black pepper extracts, MCT, chitosan
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Decrease permeability
- EGCG (reduced inflammaiton) - fermented soy milk - probiotics and prebiotics
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Microbiota
- large, functionally stable community of bacteria - ~100 trillion microbial cells - ~1,000 bacterial species in the GI microbiota - unique to the individual - nutrient metabolism, barrier funciton, immunity - impacted by diet
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Factors impacting metabolic disease
- environment - Microbiota - genetics

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