BIOL126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Starch, Fructose, Cirrhosis
Digestive System
• Describe the location, structure and function of key digestive and accessory organs (pancreas,
liver and gall bladder)
o Gastrointestinal system
• Mouth to anus - an open tube exposed to external environment
• Substances must cross cell membranes before they are internal
• Processes
▪ Ingestion
▪ Secretion
▪ Mixing/movement
▪ Digestion
▪ Absorption
▪ Excretion
o Muscular tube
• Oral cavity (mouth)
• Pharynx
• Oesophagus
• Stomach
• Small intestine
• Large intestine (open to anus)
o Accessory structures assist in digestion/absorption
• Teeth
• Tongue
• Glands (salivary, liver, gall bladder, pancreas)
o Glands produce secretions into lumen/surface
• Water, enzymes, buffers, organic and inorganic substances
o Mouth, pharynx, salivary glands
• Sensory analysis of food, mastication and swallowing
• Moistening and lubrication - mucus, saliva, water, salt
• Digestion by enzymes
▪ Lingual lipase - lipids
▪ Salivary amylase - CHO
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• Mechanical processes (chewing, swallowing) by teeth, tongue, palate, pharynx to
prepare a bolus
• No absorption of nutrients (is possible for lipid soluble drugs)
o Oesophagus
• Straight hollow muscular tube 25cm
• Posterior to trachea, passes into abdominal cavity through diaphragm
• Has glands that secrete mucus
• Mix of skeletal and smooth muscle
• Muscle tone in superior section reduces entry of air
• Muscle tone in inferior section reduces backflow from stomach
• Functions
▪ Lubricate
▪ Move bolus to stomach by peristalsis
o Stomach
• J shaped organ
• Highly folded rugae which flatten when stretched
• 3 layers of muscle for churning
• Secretions
▪ HCL pH. 1.5-2
▪ Glands secrete a mucous carpet that protects lining enzyme pepsin
• Functions
▪ Lubrication
▪ Churning
▪ First protein digestion
▪ Food solubilisation
▪ No absorption
▪ Kill microbes
▪ Stores food
• Secretes intrinsic factor, mucus, pepsinogen and acid
• Chyme formed by peristaltic and churning contractions start in
'pacemaker' region and sweep towards antrum and pyloric sphincter
• Small amount forced into duodenum
• Contraction of pyloric sphincter causes gastric mixing
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o Small intestine - duodenum, jejunum, ileum
• Duodenum 25cm - 'mixing bowl' for acid neutralisation
• Jejunum 2.5m - most chemical digestion, must nutrient absorption
• Ileum 3.5m - terminates with ileocecal valve to LI
• Mixing by segmentation - not rhythmic motility
▪ Mix chyme with intestinal, bile and pancreatic juice
▪ Peristalsis
• Secretion of enzymes for
▪ Protein digestion - peptidases
▪ Lipid digestion - lipases
▪ CHO digestion - amylases, brush border enzymes
• Propulsion to large intestine
• Functions
▪ Lubrication
▪ Motility
▪ Digestion (CHO, protein, fat)
▪ Nutrient absorption (90%)
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Document Summary
Digestive system: describe the location, structure and function of key digestive and accessory organs (pancreas, liver and gall bladder, gastrointestinal system, mouth to anus - an open tube exposed to external environment. Substances must cross cell membranes before they are internal: processes. Secretion: mixing/movement, digestion, absorption, excretion, muscular tube, oral cavity (mouth, pharynx, oesophagus. Lubricate: move bolus to stomach by peristalsis, stomach, j shaped organ, highly folded rugae which flatten when stretched, 3 layers of muscle for churning, secretions, hcl ph. 1. 5-2: glands secrete a mucous carpet that protects lining enzyme pepsin, functions. Secretes intrinsic factor, mucus, pepsinogen and acid: chyme formed by peristaltic and churning contractions start in. "pacemaker" region and sweep towards antrum and pyloric sphincter. Lipid digestion - lipases: propulsion to large intestine, functions. B5, biotin: movement, haustral contraction (every 30min, mass movement (1-3 times per day, secretion, mucus, functions. Lubrication: water reabsorption, waste compaction, motility, vitamin absorption.