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HISTOLO Lecture 4 - Histology of The Digestive System
HISTOLO Lecture 4 - Histology of The Digestive System
• Ingestion
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• Break down the food
– Taking food and water into the mouth
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– Chemical digestion: digestive enzymes breakdown food
• Absorb nutrients
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• Release of waste
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– Is continuous with the oropharynx posteriorly – Forms the roof of the mouth. Consists of hard and soft
• Divided into two areas
– Vestibule • Hard palate: assists the tongue in chewing
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Space between the lips or cheeks and the alveolar
processes, which contain the teeth
• Soft palate: mobile fold formed mostly of skeletal muscle.
Projecting from the soft palate is the uvula
– Closes off the nasopharynx during swallowing
– Oral Cavity Proper• The mouth contains accessory glands (salivary
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• To withstand abrasions:
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and accessory organs (teeth
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which begin the digestive process
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and tongue)
The Lip
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Oral Cavity
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– Replacement starts at about 5 years and the process is
complete by about 11 years
The types of teeth are
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– Root
• Portion of the tooth embedded in the jawbone
• Composed of dentin
Fig. 21.6
Oral Cavity
• Salivary Glands
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– Produce and secrete saliva that:
• Cleanses the mouth
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Moistens and dissolves food chemicals
Aids in bolus formation
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• Contains enzymes that break down starch
– Salivary glands produce serous and mucous
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parotid, submandibular, and sublingual
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• Connective tissue layer containing the submucosal plexus (part of the
• Protect digestive organs from digesting themselves enteric plexus), blood vessels, and small glands
– Muscularis
• Ease food along the tract
• Consists of an inner layer of circular smooth muscle and an outer layer of
Fig. 21.2
Esophageal
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hold about a gallon of food
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called rugae
(submucosa and mucosa)
Fig. 21.10
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produce juice
Glands include four secretory cells:
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– Mucous neck: secrete acid mucus
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– Chief cells: produce pepsinogen
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Pepsinogen is activated to pepsin by:
Pepsin itself via a positive feedback mechanism
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cells: produce regulatory hormones
Gastrin, histamine, endorphins, serotonin,
cholecystokinin (CCK), and somatostatin into the
lamina propria
Stomach Diagram
Anatomy and Histology of the Stomach
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Duodenum - ~ 10” long. The bile and pancreatic ducts
empty here
Jejunum - ~ 8’ long
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Anatomy and Histology of the Small Intestines
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– Microvilli
• Tiny projections of absorptive mucosal cells’ plasma membranes.
This forms a brush border
• The epithelium of the mucosa is simple columnar
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Between the villi the mucosa
pits called intestinal glands
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The cecum forms a blind sac at the junction of the small and large
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The colon has distinct regions: ascending colon, transverse colon,
descending colon, and sigmoid colon
The sigmoid colon joins the rectum
Fig. 21.24
Anatomy and Histology of the Large Intestine
Liver
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caudate, and quadrate
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Internally, the liver is divided into eight segments
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Liver segments are divided into lobules
– Hexagonal-shaped liver lobules are the
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structural and functional units of the liver
– Composed of hepatocyte (liver cell) plates