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Digestive System

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Q: Take a trip through the digestive system.   A: From start to finish: oral cavity, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, rectum, anus.  
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Q: What glands are associated with the digestive system?   A: Salivary glands, liver, pancreas.  
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Q: What is the general structure from the esophagus to the rectum?   A: A tube with a 4-layered wall. From the outside in: Serosa/adventitia, muscularis externa, submucosa, & mucosa.  
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Q: This portion is the portion that forms a selective barrier and is involved in both secretion & absorption.   A: The mucosa.  
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Q: This portion is made up of loose CT, contains blood & lymphatic vessels, it's where you find Meissner's plexus, and where you find glands in the esophagus & duodenum.   A: The submucosa.  
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Q: This portion usually has two layers of smooth muscle and is where you would find Auerbach's plexus.   A: The muscularis externa.  
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Q: You would find this portion in areas where organs are embedded in other tissue.   A: Adventitia.  
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Q: You would find this portion along with mesothelium where there is free surface.   A: Serosa.  
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Q: What is the function of the esophagus?   A: To transport food from mouth to stomach.  
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Q: The mucosal lining of the esophagus is made up of ________ epithelium.   A: Stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium.  
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Q: What secretes mucus in the esophagus?   A: Submucosal glands.  
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Q: What is the physical make-up of the muscularis externa layer of the esophagus??   A: Upper 1/3 is skeletal muscle, middle 1/3 is both skeletal & smooth muscle, the lower 1/3 is smooth muscle.  
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Q: Does the esophagus have a advetitia or serosa?   A: Both! Advetitia above the diaphram and serosa below the diaphram.  
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Q: True or false: The stomach has both exocrine & endocrine functions.   A: True! Exocrine - secretes pepsin, Endocrine - secretes hormones.  
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Q: Aside from its endocrine & exocrine functions, name another function of the stomach.   A: Converts ingested food to acidic chyme.  
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Q: Name the regions of the stomach.   A: Cardia (no TQ here), fundus & body (histologically identical), and pylorus (or pyloric canal).  
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Q: These are longitudinal folds of mucosa & submucosa that disappear when the stomach fills.   A: Rugae.  
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Q: The mucosa is made up of ____ & ____.   A: Gastric pits & glands (found at the base of the pits).  
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Q: What type of cells are found in gastric glands?   A: Parietal cells, chief cells, and enteroendocrine cells.  
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Q: Where would you find pepsinogen & gastric lipase?   A: In chief cells.  
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Q: Enteroendocrine cells of the mucosa are found where?   A: In the stomach & small intestines. In the stomach they secrete gastrin to produce HCL, in the small intestines they secrete cholecystokinin (CCK) & secretin.  
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Q: What are the three layers of the muscularis externa?   A: Inner oblique, middle circular, outer longitudinal.  
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Q: Name the segments of the small intestines.   A: Duodenum, jejunum, and lieum.  
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Q: What is the function of the small intestines?   A: Final digestion, absorption, and endocrine secretion.  
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Q: These are permanent folds of mucosa & submucosa that are most elaborate in the jejunum.   A: Plicae circulares.  
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Q: In the small intestines, what are the strucures designed to increase surface area?   A: Plicae circulares, villi, & microvilli.  
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Q: True or false: Crypts (glands) of Lieberkuhn are found in the mucosa of the small intestines.   A: True!  
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Q: Name the cells of the small intestines.   A: Intestinal absorptive cells, goblet cells, Paneth cells, and enteroendocrine cells.  
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Q: These cells are found in the small intestines at the base of crypts that secrete lysozyme and function as antimicroglia agents.   A: Paneth cells.  
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Q: These columnar epithelial cells with microvilli are found in the small intestines and are also called enterocytes.   A: Intestinal absorptive cells.  
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Q: These cells of the small intestines protect & lubricate and increase in numbers as we approach the ileum.   A: Goblet cells.  
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Q: These cells secrete CCK & secretin.   A: Enteroendocrine cells.  
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Q: What does cholecystokinin (CCK) do?   A: CCK stimulates secretion of pancreatic enzymes & stimulates contraction of the gallbladder.  
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Q: What does secretin do?   A: Secretin stimulates the pancreas to release bicarbonate and water.  
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Q: Where would you find Peyer's patches?   A: In the lamina propria of the ileum (I still don't know what they are).  
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Q: These glands, found in the submucosa of the duodenum, secrete alkaline mucus.   A: Brunner's glands.  
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Q: True or false: Crypts (glands) of lieberkuhn can be found in both small and large intestines.   A: True! I know at one point she made a distinction between crypts and glands but I have them both ways in my notes.  
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Q: What is the function of the large intestines.   A: Absorb water, produce mucus, form feces.  
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Q: Name the components of the large intestines.   A: Cecum, ascending colon, transverse colon, descending colon, sigmoid colon, rectum.  
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Q: True or false: The mucosa of the large intestines have no villi.   A: True!  
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Q: True or false: In the large intenstines the glands of Lieberkuhn contain absorptive cells & goblet cells.   A: True!  
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Q: What is special about the muscularis externa of the large intestine?   A: It has an outer longitudinal layer made up of three bands called "teniae coli".  
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Q: What marks the rectoanal junction?   A: An abrupt change from simple columnar to stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium & the disappearance of muscularis mucosa.  
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Q: What do you find in the submucosa of the rectoanal junction?   A: Hemorrhoidal veins.  
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Q: At the rectoanal junction the muscular externa has two layers. What are they and what do they form?   A: Inner & outer circular layers. The inner circular layer forms the inner anal sphincter and the outer circular layer forms the external anal sphincter.  
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