Receptors
What is a SSR?
Stimulated by food entering the stomach
What is gastrin?
Performs primarily mechanical digestion
What is the stomach?
releases histamine
What is the upper esophageal sphincter?
On hepatocytes in the liver and controls phosphorylation of IRS
What is an insulin receptor?
Results in the secretion of digestive enzymes from the pancreas
What is secretin?
Split into exocrine and endocrine segments
What is the pancreas?
What is a D cell?
Regulates emptying of the stomach
What is the duodenum?
Controls D cells in the lumen of the antrum
Targets the gallbladder to secrete bile
What is CCK?
What is the gallbladder?
Secretes CCKB
What is an I cell?
Pulls water from digestive contents
What is the large intestine?
Is controlled by the release of gastrin
What is an CCK receptor?
Is released in response to a drop in blood glucose levels
What is glucagon?
Is responsible for the processing and storage of glucose in response to insulin secretion
What is the liver?
Secretes intrinsic factor
What is a parietal cell?
What is the lower esophageal sphincter?
Is opened by depolarization of a pancreatic beta cell in order to return the cell to normal resting potential
Stimulated to be released by the small intestine in response to fat
What is GIP?
Performs chemical digestion and absorption of two macromolecules
What is the duodenum?
Secretes an inactive proteolytic enzyme that digests protein
What is a chief cell?
Sits on top of the duodenum
What is the pancreas?