BILD 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, Blood Sugar, Lipase

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1 Apr 2019
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Digestion of macronutrients: focus on fats: fats don"t mix well with water. They tend to form big globules: slows down the rate of lipase digestion, bile salts coat the fat, allowing it to exist in small droplets in water, more access to lipases. Bile salts: bile salts come from bile, which also contains other things, made by the liver, stored in the gallbladder, secreted into small intestine, even if you remove the gallbladder, bile is still secreted. Also, bile is helpful, but not necessary for fat digestion. Absorption of the macronutrients: sugars and amino acids: sugars and amino acids are absorbed by cells of the intestinal lining, secreted into a capillary, blood goes to liver. Absorption of the macronutrients: fats: products of fat digestion absorbed by cells of intestinal lining, fats remade in cells, fats go into lymph, vessel is a lacteal, dumped into blood into veins near heart.

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