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1
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Describe 3 properties of chyme

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  • Hypertonic
  • Low pH
  • Partially digested
2
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Explain how hypertonic chyme exits the stomach but isotonic chyme exits the duodenum

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  • Initial digestion of food in stomach creates solutes that make the chyme hypertonic
  • Stomach wall largely impermeable to water so chyme cannot be diluted
  • Duodenum relatively permeable to water so hypertonic chyme draws in water from ECF/circulation
3
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Duodenum secretes secretin and CCK in response to presence of chyme.

What is the action of secretin?

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Secretin acts on pancreas to stimulate release an aqueous bicarbonate (HCO3-) component of the pancreatic secretion into the duodenum

4
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Duodenum secretes secretin and CCK in response to presence of chyme.

What is the action of CCK?

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  • Acts on pancreas to stimulate the release of enzyme component of pancreatic secretion
  • Contracts gallbladder
  • Relaxes sphincter of oddi
5
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How are the exocrine secretions of the pancreas controlled?

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  • Stimulated via gut hormones

I. Secretin

II. CCK

  • Also, autonomic control:

I. Sympathetic inhibits

II. Parasympathetic stimulates (vagus)

6
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Describe the structure of the pancreatic acini

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7
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Which enzymes are released from the pancreas?

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CCK & vagus nerve stimulate acini to produce enzymes:

  • Amylases and lipases (active)
  • Proteases (inactive)
8
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Identify 4 activated proteases which are derived from the secretions of pancreatic acini

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  • Trypsin
  • Chymotrypsin
  • Elastase
  • Carboxypeptidase
9
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How are pancreatic proteases produced and stored?

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Protease enzymes (inactive) produced within acinar cells are concentrated and stored in zymogen granules

10
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What do zymogen granules contain?

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Zymogen granules contain zymogen e.g. trypsinogen; which is converted to trypsin in intestinal lumen

11
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What happens when pancreatic duct cells are stimulated?

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Duct cells secrete aqueous component (isotonic) and bicarbonate which act to neutralise the acidic chyme

12
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How do pancreatic secretions get to the duodenum?

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Pancreatic secretions reach the duodenum via pancreatic duct and ampulla of vater

13
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How does the liver respond to the presence of chyme?

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Liver secretes bile (stored in gallbladder) into the duodenum

14
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What does bile consist of?

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  • Bile acid-dependent: bile acids and pigments
  • Bile-acid independent: alkaline solution
15
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What is the role of bile in the duodenum?

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Bile emulsifies fat (lipids) in duodenum so that they can be readily digested by pancreatic lipases

16
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Describe the micro-anatomy of the liver

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  • Lobules form the structural units of the liver
  • Hexagonal arrangement of cells, bile ducts and blood vessels
17
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Describe the arrangement of structures in the liver lobule

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  • Triad of structures at each corner: portal vein (branch), hepatic artery (branch), bile duct
  • Central vein in middle
18
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Describe the flow of blood and bile in the liver lobule

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  • Blood flows in towards central vein via sinusoids from the branches of the portal vein and hepatic artery
  • Bile flows out along canaliculi and bile duct into duodenum
19
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What is the name of the functional area of the liver lobule?

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Functional area of the lobule is called the acinus

20
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With references to the liver, what is the significance of blood draining from the periphery of the lobule towards the centre?

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  • Substances brought to the liver from gut therefore start at periphery and work towards middle (towards central vein)
  • Creates a series of zones (1,2,3) corresponding to distance from arterial blood supply
21
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Describe the production of bile in the liver

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  • Bile is continuously produced by hepatocytes and duct cells in liver
  • It is only needed intermittently and, thus, is stored in the gallbladder
22
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Describe the secretion of bile into the duodenum

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  • CCK stimulates the contraction of gallbladder
  • Bile is secreted via the common bile duct, then Ampulla of Vater into duodenum
23
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Which structure secretes bile acids and pigments?

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Bile acids and pigments are secreted into canaliculi by hepatocytes

24
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Which structure secretes alkaline juices?

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Alkaline juices are secreted by bile duct cells which are stimulated by secretin

25
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What are bile salts?

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Bile salts are bile acids conjugated with amino acids (glycine, taurine)

26
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There are two primary bile acids.

Identify them

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  • Cholic acid
  • Chenodeoxycolic acid
27
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Why are bile acids conjugated?

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  • Bile acids are not always soluble at duodenal pHs
  • Bile salts have an amphipathic structure (hydrophilic and hydrophobic ends)
  • Bile salts allow emulsification of dietary lipids
28
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Why do bile salts need to emulsify fats?

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  • Lipids form large globules once in duodenum, with a small surface area for lipases to act
  • Bile salts emulsify fat into disperse droplets, increasing surface area for lipases
29
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Bile salts then create micelles with products of lipid breakdown.

What do they do?

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Micelles act as a vehicle for transporting hydrophobic molecules (products of lipid digestion) towards the luminal membrane of an enterocyte

30
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What happens after lipids diffuse into intestinal epithelium cells?

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  • Inside the enterocyte, lipid molecules are re-esterified back to triglycerides, phospholipids and cholesterol
  • Then they are packed with apoproteins within enterocyte, forming chylomicrons
31
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What do chylomicrons do?

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Chylomicrons carry digested fats via the lymphatic system to ultimately reach blood circulation

32
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Why are chylomicrons exocytosed from the basolateral membrane of the enterocyte?

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  • Too large to enter capillaries
  • Enter lymphatic capillaries through thoracic duct
33
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The liver recycles bile acids.

Describe the entero-hepatic circulation of bile acids

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  • Bile salts remain in gut (they do not enter enterocyte)
  • Reabsorbed in terminal ileum
  • Returned to liver in portal blood
34
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What is steatorrhea?

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Steatorrhea is when undigested fat appears in faeces due to inadequate secretion of bile acids (salts) or pancreatic lipases

35
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How does steatorrhea present?

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  • Pale
  • Floating
  • Foul smelling