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Physiology of digestive system
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Olgestwe System
© The mayor objective of eating food is to get nutfients.
© The conversion of complex food into Simple € absorable form is
known a8 digestion € the sistem thot performa che process of
digestion is known as digestive aystem.
© Digestive Aster simply breakdown the food into nutrients .
Pharynx
Salivary esophagus
Glonds ea
Liver
fancens ‘Stomach
Lore. Intestine
Small Intestine
- Rectum
Anus—Stages_Of Digestion _
© Ingestion * Receiving of Food
© Propulsion - Movement af Food
© Digestion * Mechanical -€ chemical breakdown
© Absotblion * Absorbtion of nutrients
© Excretion * Removal / Excretion. of food
Forts _of Digestive System
© The digestive is mainly consist of Gastrointestinal Tract € Digeshve
Glands also Known ag Acessory Glands .
© The mojor organs of GIT indvdes -
© Movth
( Pharynx
© Oesophagus
() Stomach
(S) Smalt_ Thtestine
(©) Large Thtestine
() Rectum
(8) Anus
O_Movm
© FF is also known as Oral cavity or bucal cavity .
© This the first port of gastrointestinal tract
© F is suttounded by upper € lower lips .
© The routh rainy consist of lips, cheeks, qum, ‘teeth, solivary qlands
€ Tongue.
© The space blw gums & checs ts known 0% Vedibute
© The foof bocca Cawity ts Known ag. Palote.
© Polote are of two types ' Sof Polote — Hard Palate .> @ Teeth mainly perform Mechanical digestion .
© They breakdown the food inte smaller pieces
© There cre foto! 32 teeth in mouth
@® Incisors : g
@ Goines 24
@® Premolars : g
® Moiars + 19
[Tongue } : @ The tongue lies on floor of mouth
© FF is altached with Hyoid bone
© TD mixes soliva into food € convert into bot,
© TE contains tote receptors.
© Sueet
@ Salty
@ Pur
® Bitter
@ _Puarunx
© Tt is a mosculor tube like structure
© Ti lies blw mouth € Gesophaqua .
© Tis the common pothwoy for digestive € respirolory frac.
© Tf is Glo known a Throof.
© TF passes the bolus into oesophagus
© Epiglotis moke sure the pathway of food Chovs) ftom pharynx
fo Gesophagus .
© T is furtnes divided into three patts
1) Nasophorynx
(2) Orophorynx
(2) _Laryngophorynx® esornncus_
© Tt Is also known as Food pipe.
© Ti is a bolow tube like structure thot cames, {0d Cbolws) fom
& pharynx to stomach.
© Fi ties blw ttachea In front & vertebrol Column at back.
© No digestion fakes place in esophagus -@2 digestive enaymes
are absent .
© (esophagus Opens {nto stomach
® _Stonaar
@ Tt is a A shaped pouched like structure .
© Tt lies in the lef side Of abdominal covity.
© Capacity ~ Woml- +S lite.
© Tr secretes digestve fluids called Gtastic vice.
© Th se tecelves’ food fiom esophagus .
© TF secretes gasttic juice into bolus < convert Into Chyme
Liall_of_Stomach_
The woll of stomach is made of 4 layers °
© Serasa
® Mascvlais
® Suvmucosa
® Mucosa Cardiac
Posts of Stomach
TF con be divided Into 4 parts Fundus
© (Cardiac
®@ fundus Body
® Body Pylorus
@® PylorsFundus
Note *
‘@ Tt is the uppermost post of stomach.
Th is attached with Jower end of desophagus .
© Tt contuins Cardiac spinchtes.
© Th prevents backflow of food from stomach to
Oesophagus otherwise it Can couse heartbusn
: © Th is also the upper past of stomach.
© Findus Contains special types of cells Known ag
Chief ells -@ Parietal Cells .
© CHEF Ceus : FF produces various enzymes Includes -
© fepsin
® Renin
® lipase
© ParieaL Ceus : Tt mainly produces HCI
© Tt lies tn the central teqion of stomach,
© Tis the longest part of stomach
© Ty digest protein € stores food until it reaches
into small intestine
© TF ts the lower part of stomach .
Tr is connected with duodenum of small intestine,
Th transfers the food. fiom stomach fo smoll. Intestine.
Tr contoins special types of Cells frown 0% Gi -Ceus .
@ ls Secetes Glastrin Hormone.
Th the complete epithetivm of stomach fhere are so
Many goblet cells re present that secretes mucous €
it protets stomach from Hct.Role of Gasttic Ho
© The Het CHydtochloric acid) plays Major fole in digestion of feed
in the stomach .
© Tt is secreted by paretol cells of stomach.
© Tt helps t0 convert bolus into chyme .
@ Tt helps in the breakdown of complex food.
© Ty Converts pepsinagen into pepsin thot helps in protein digestion.
© Tr also shows antiseptic acion by killing bacteria,
Functions _of Stomach _
© TF stores the food for a tong time £ afer that rancferrecl
into. cmall intestine slowly. and it provides enough time or
digestion -€ albsorbtion of food in mall intestine.
© Storage Time :
® Fob + 6-8 hours
Gi) Proteins 4-5 hours
Gid Carbohy drates * 1-2 hours
© Tt helps in the chemical breakdown of ftod.
© Gashic {vice mainy helps in the digestion of pootetn .
© HR secretes mucus thot pootets the stomach 4fom HCI.
© Tt kills bacteria € other dust particles from Roo,© Smart Tnrestne
© Smoll intestine is the site of fhal digestion of food.
© T is a long 2 Narow tube whose upper past is attached fo
© stomach while lower part Is Oltached with lotge intestine .
© Tt is about 6-4 meter tong.
© Tt is the ste of major absorbtion € digestion
© This further divided thto three ports
© Duadenum
@ Aequnum
® Treum
Quodenum.
@ Ovodenum acepts Only Alkaline ocd.
© Tt is shottest @ widest past of moll intestine,
© Tr is approx [0-1 inches long .
oD reeives bile pice » poe lice € food fom liver, pancreas
& stomach
© sexetions Of Duodenum :
() Enterogastrone
ai) Seaetin
Git) Pancreoeneyme.
) Chotecystobhin
© Tis about 4-8 feet long.
© Tf is the Mojor site for absorbtion of © sygars,- amino -acida
€ fatty acids .
© Final breckdown of food completed here.
© TH secretes Intestinal [uive.© TE is lost port of small intestine Connected with the cecum
C first port of large intestine) .
© TF ts about 10- 11 feet long.
© This the largest section of small tntestine.
© Tt is the major site of absorbtion of nuttents , bile , vitamins
etc.
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Enzymes Responsible for Digestion_in_Pretetn
© Enterokinase Converts trypsinogen Into. trypsin
© Erepsin + — Converts Polypeptides Into Omino acids.
© Sucrose, Maltase € Lactose : Cnverts dlisachanits info Monostreenoutls.
Absorption in Smolt_ Intestine
© The absorbtion in xmoll intestine mainly -ocurs through Vill’
R Microvillr
© \illi + Finger like projections,
© Miccouilli : Tiny hair like Structures on Vii
© _Larwe _Intesnne
© Tk storts fom ileum @ ends on tectum.
© Tt is Gpprox +S m eng.
© FH mainly absorbs water fiom digested food.
© is further divided into S parts .
O Cecum
® Asending colon
@ Descending lon
@ Tronsverse Colon
© Sigmoid Colon® Rectum
© Ti Stores the remaining woste of Food.
© TF opens Outside though anus.
@ The undigested or unabsorbed substances that 1s Stored in th
aAvs are Called Fasces .
@ Anvs_
© Tr is the fna) portion of the Giostrointeshnal Trach.
© The undigested and unabsorbed ‘bod that iS simply known ca
© Faees excreted vt ftom body through anv, & tls a
Volurkary process.
© Two types of spinchter muacles found fm anus,
© Intemol * Thuolontary
@ Externol * VoluntaryDigestive Gianos
© Digestive glands ore the accessory glands of digestive. system
thot helps In the process of digestion .
© They mainly indudes :
© Salivary Gilands
® Lives
®@ Gall Bladder
@ Fancteos,
© _SAuvary_ GiLAnos _
© Sativary glonds are the exocrine gland present In - the
Mouth thot secretes Saliva in GIT
© Sollva mixes with food @ convert it into Bolva .
@ Humon solivery glonds produes OS L fo +51 goliva daily.
© Soliva contains digestive enaymes mainly Salivary Amylase
which helps in the carbohydrate digestion.
© F also have antbaderiol effect of fighting off bactena.
Sativa contains 99S 7. woter @ O-S7. protein € mineral salts.
Types of soli Non
There are mainly 3 types of salivary glands present In humais,
® Pasolid Glands
® sSvbmondibular Glands
® sublinquel Glonds .© These are the largest solivary glands .
© They are located below the auditory capsule ear
© Duct : Stenson's Duct.
© Tk opens in upper jaw.
© Tt contributes 287. saliva.
© Tt secretes semus type saliva
Submandibular _Gilands
© They are second largest Salivary glands, C smaller thon parotid)
& Digger thon sublingual ) .
© TD opens in the buco! cavity.
© Duct : Wharton's Duct.
© Tk makes Yor of foto! saliva
© TF secdes both serous, € muova saliva
© They are the smollest Soltvary glands.
© They are located below the tongue .
eT mokes 57. of foto! saliva .
e@ Duct: Bartholin's Duct.
© They don't contain enzymes.®
© Liver is the largest gland or largest organ of our body.
© Ts weight is about 1-8 kg.
© Tr has highest regeneration powers
© Uver performs maximum number of fincions in our body.
© Tt @ntoins lots of mitochondria.
© Tt is feddish brown - colour in human
Surfaces _of Liver
Liver have four surfaces °
© Superior Surface
® Tnferior Surface
@ Anterios surface
@ fostenior Surface
Falciform
lobes of Lives _ Loma
© Liver containg two lobes,
© Right Lobe
@ leh Lobe
© Right lobe is much larger than left. lobe.
© Rignt lobe forme S]c part while left lobe oma 4c part
@ Right € Left lobes are separoted by falifown Ligaments.
@ Right duc anses from night lobe “€ Jef duct anses fom
left lobe of liver.
© Both right © left ducts combiner € form a common hepatic
duct
Gra BloddesTntemal_ Studvre_of Lives
© The liver ts made up of small hexagonal} units present
In large number in liver -
© Foch lobule has a @entol vein Of intratobular vein urroundlec|
by Severo! pottal Triads,
© The portal triad is Consist of
© Portal Vein
@ Bile duc
@® hepatic Atery
Fundions of Lives
© Secretion of bile juice
© Synthesis, 2 storage oF Glycogen
© Synthesis of Urea
© Metabdism of Corbohydrates, fats & Froteins.
© Vitamins @ Minerdls Storage.
© Synthesis OF — Hepavin
© Blood-. sugar fequlation
© Detoxification 2 furificotion of blood .
@_GArt_BLAooER _
© Gail bladder lies below the might lobe
© Tt stores 2 concentrates the bite from tues
© Goll bladdes contains cystic duct
© Hicrouilli an Gall. bloddes absorbs moisture fom . bile €
Makes It concentrated@_Pancreas_
© Tt is a mixed qglond
© Tt is located behind the stomach in Upper lef cbcomen .
© Tk secretes both enzymes € hormone,
© Gn be divided into three ports :
© lipase Head
@ Amylase Body ¢ Tail
© Trypsin Tail Bedy
Head
Enzymes Secretion Rncreas
Pancreatic -lvice mainly containg -
@ Lipase = Convats Fatty @ered into Fatty acta € glycerols .
© Amylase + Comets Stach {nfo Maltese
© Trypsin == Converts Peptones info Amino aaids ,
Harmones Secretion feos
Talets of Longerhang containg mainly types of @lig thot
secretes following harmones .
© Alpha (ells * Glucagon
© Bela elle * Tnsolin
© Delta Cell,‘ — SomatostatinAcio Proouction IN STOMACH
© Hel is produced by the parietal celts of stomach
© Hydrochloric acid secretion is an active process that takes place
{n the Gnalicuti of posietal cells .
© Carbon di oxide is deived from metabolic activities of parietal cells,
© The carbon di oxide Hs present in parietal Cells combines with
20 € form corbonic Acid CHaCos) in the presence of carbonic
anhydrase .
@ The efayme carbonic anhydrase present in high Concentration In
Parielol calls.
© (Coronic acid is most unstable Compouncl € hence jt immediate
splits into Wnydogen fon CH) € bicwbonote jon CHcos”)
© The hydrogen jon is actively pumped into canalicolvs of
parietal lls. through Kt/ Ht Aipase pump € the energy for
this process is clenved fom glucose
© Now simuttaneoualy along with this process Ct long also
pumped into Canalicolug of panetal cells .
@ Chlonde Cc) js derived from Nacl in blood.
© Now in the Anal step Ht combines with Cl -@ form Hel
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arRove OF Pepsin in PROTEIN DIGESTION
© Pepsin is the enayme Seoreled by chief cells of stomach
© Fi is the Only proteolytic enzyme present In Gostnc vice
Cproteotytic enzymes are those that helps fn breakdown or
digestion of protein.
@ The chief celts produce pepsin in fhe thactivated form known
Qs Pepsinogen.
© Now fhis pepsinogen activates: in the form of Pepsin with
the help of Hcl secreted by parietal @lls .
Hel —> | Autocatalysis
© Afer adivating in the form of pepsin tt breokdowns the
teins into smoller Fepticles € Amino acid& that con be
easily absorbed in Small intestine .
© Although Pepsin plays moyor (le tn protein digestion bot
Most of ‘the protein are digestecl In the duodenum
Z jeywnum of small intestine by poncreatic jure