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Digestive Review 1
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Metabolism
Urinary
100
What begins protein digestion?
Pepsin
100
What is secreted in the large intestine?
Nothing
100
What do catabolic reactions do?
Break down and release energy
100
What is the anatomical position of the kidneys?
Retroperitoneal
200
What is controlling the stomach during the cephalic phase?
Brain
200
What does bile do to digested pieces of lipids?
Emulsifies
200
What is needed to begin glycolysis?
A glucose molecule and 2 ATP
200
Where does the blood from the efferent arteriole go?
Peritubular capillary or vasa recta
300
What action do the circular and longitudinal layer of muscularis externa perform?
Circular layer squeezes, longitudinal layer pulls
300
Why do we need macrophages near liver sinusoids?
Sinusoids filter indiscriminately
300
What is the final electron acceptor and what is formed?
Oxygen, Water
300
What are the three processes involved in urine formation?
Glomerular filtration, tubular reabsorption, tubular secretion
400
Where are short reflexes found?
Gut
400
Where in the small intestine do we have segmentation? Peristalsis? Why is this?
Segmentation during absorption, Peristalsis for moving in the ileum,
400
What does ATP synthase use to drive ATP synthesis?
Proton gradient
400
What drives filtration?
Hydrostatic pressure
500
What epithelium is present in the secretory and absorptive parts of the alimentary canal?
Simple columnar
500
How are triglycerides absorbed?
Broken down, reassembled after crossing the membrane, travel to bloodstream via the lymph and enter at the subclavian
500
Energy from the electrons dropped off at the membrane is used for what?
Pump H+ into the inter membrane space to create a proton gradient
500
Name the three functions of the urinary system that are involved in homeostasis
Regulation of total body water and osmolarity, regulation of ion concentration in ECF, regulation of acid-base balance