Anatomy
This substance emulsifies dietary fats, aiding in their digestion and absorption.
What is bile?
The most abundant solute in bile.
What are bile salts?
Lipase digests this substance.
What is fat?
When this sphincter is closed, bile is diverted back to the gallbladder for storage.
What is the sphincter of Oddi?
This hardened deposit can obstruct the flow of bile, causing post-hepatic jaundice.
What is a gallstone?
The gallbladder has this on epithelial cells for water and ion absorption, helping concentrate the bile 5-10 times.
What are microvilli?
Runs the length of the pancreas and joins the common bile duct at the Ampulla of Vater.
What is the main pancreatic duct?
This hormone stimulates bicarbonate secretion in the pancreatic ductal cells.
What is secretin?
The liver, gallbladder and biliary ducts develop from this embryological structure.
What is the hepatic diverticulum/ventral bud from the foregut?
These cells have a prominent basal basophilia and contain inactive digestive enzymes.
What are pancreas acinar cells?
The head of the pancreas is nestled in here.
What is the C-loop of the duodenum?
This enzyme activates trypsinogen into trypsin.
What is enteropeptidase?
The pancreas forms from these two buds.
What are the ventral and dorsal pancreatic buds?
Regions of the pancreas that release hormones, not enzymes
What are Islets of Langerhans?
The tail of the pancreas extends into this structure.
What is the spleen?
95% of bile salts are reabsorbed here before returning to the liver and resecreted into bile.
What is the terminal ileum?
A congenital varient where the two pancreatic ducts fail to fuse.
What is Pancreas Divisum?