week 11 (digestive system -digestion, eliminative, absorptive & distributive processes; utilization processes: liver & cell metabolism) Flashcards
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digestion
l: digestive system
f: complex process of turning the food you eat into nutrient
absorption
l: happens mostly in small inestine
f: absorp nutrients and vitmins in food
metabolism
l: mostly liver
f: keeps the body at homeostatis
mechincal digestion
purely physical process that does not change the chemical nature of the food. Instead, it makes the food smaller to increase both surface area and mobility.
chemical digestion
Chemical digestion involves the secretions of enzymes throughout your digestive tract. These enzymes break the chemical bonds that hold food particles together.
mastication
definition: chewing
area(s): mouth
how it process facilitates digestion: mechinal digestion
muscle tissue: in the jaw and mouth region
branch of motor nervous system: voluntary
degulitition
definition: swallowing
area(s): throat/buccal cavity
how it process facilitates digestion: allows food to go to eposgus
muscle tissue: touge
branch of motor nervous system: voluntary
propulsion
definition: pushing/forcing food towards an area
area(s): buccal cavity, stomach, small intestine, large, rectum
how it process facilitates digestion: allows food to continue to move throughout the tract
muscle tissue: tonuge, smooth muscle tissue
branch of motor nervous system: voluntary/involuntary
perisalisis
definition: wave like contractions
area(s): eposgus and stomach
how it process facilitates digestion: moves food and further digests it
muscle tissue: smooth muscle tissue
branch of motor nervous system:involuntary
segmantation
definition: separates chyme and then pushes it back together
area(s): intestines
how it process facilitates digestion: always chyme to be chemical digested and absported
muscle tissue: smooth muscle
branch of motor nervous system: involuntary
defactation
definition: pooping
area(s): rectum/anus
how it process facilitates digestion: release of feces
muscle tissue: smooth mucle
branch of motor nervous system: involuntary/ vountary
vomiting
Vomiting is the body’s way of protecting you from threats. When it detects a harmful substance or something irritating, your body actually thinks you’re being poisoned. The body’s natural reaction is to rid the body of that threat, causing it to expel the contents of the stomach.
diaharring
the contents in your digestive system move so quickly through the digestive system that the intestines don’t have enough time to absorb the fluids, or when the digestive system produces extra fluid. The result is stools that contain excess fluids, making them loose and watery.
consitputation
waste or stool moves too slowly through the digestive tract or cannot be eliminated effectively from the rectum, which may cause the stool to become hard and dry.
digestive enzymes
Amylase
- made in the pancreas and salivary glands
- startch to maltose
Maltase
- maltose to glucose
- made in small intestine
Lactase
- lactose to glucose/galactose
- made in small intestine
Lipase
- lipids (fats/oils) to fatty acids/glycerol
- made in pancreas
Proteases
- protien to amino acids
- made in pancreas/stomach
what must ____ be reduced to to be digested
a. carbohydrates (polysaccharides) - glucose
b. fats (lipids) - fatty acids
c. proteins (polypeptides) - amino acids
chyme
the pulpy acidic fluid which passes from the stomach to the small intestine, consisting of gastric juices and partly digested food.
hydrolysis
Hydrolysis is any chemical reaction in which a molecule of water breaks one or more chemical bonds
chemical digestion of the stomach
a. Hydrochloric acid
Hydrochloric acid helps your body to break down, digest, and absorb nutrients such as protein. actives pepsinogen
b. Pepsinogen (inactive pepsin)
a substance which is secreted by the stomach wall and converted into the enzyme pepsin by gastric acid.
c. Mucus
Gastric mucus is a gel-mucous barrier secreted by epithelial cells and glandular cells in the stomach wall. It acts as part of a barrier that protects the stomach wall from the acid and digestive enzymes within the stomach lumen.
d. Gastric lipase
an acidic lipase secreted by the gastric chief cells in the fundic mucosa in the stomach
pancreatic juices
a. Trypsin (inactive to not digest pancreas)
-digest proteins into peptides
b. Chymotrypsin
-digest proteins into peptides
c. Carboxypeptidase (inactive to not digest pancreas)
-digest proteins into peptides
d. Pancreatic lipase
-the principal triglyceride–digesting enzyme in adults
e. Pancreatic amylase
-starch-digesting enzyme
enterokinase
a protease of the intestinal brush border that specifically cleaves the acidic propeptide from trypsinogen to yield active trypsin
how do bicarbonates in pancratic juices help with digestion
in neutralising the low pH of the chyme coming from the stomach
role of bile in lipid molecules
lipid carriers and are able to solubilize many lipids by forming micelles - aggregates of lipids such as fatty acids, cholesterol and monoglycerides
small intestine enzymes
protease
- protien to amino acids
- made in pancreas/stomach
maltase
- maltose to glucose
- made in small intestine
lactase
- lactose to glucose/galactose
- made in small intestine
sucrase
-sucrose to fructose/glucose
-made in small intestine