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Further Human Physiology
Further Human Physiology
Homeostasis
Definition of “Job”
 involves maintaining internal enviro at constant or close to constant levels
 includes regulation of: blood pH, water potential, O 2 & CO 2 concentrations, blood glucose, body temp
Negative Feedback
 monitors levels of variables, corrects changes through negative feedback
 regulation of body temp is example
Body Temp Control
 sweat glands secrete sweat into ducts that lead to skin surface, evaporates and heat is released
 hairs block layer of air (insulator), raising of hair increases layer, reduces heat loss
 skin arterioles regulate amount of blood to skin, determines skin temp and heat loss
 shivering requires muscle contractions, gives off heat as a result
 thyroxine (produced/secreted by thyroid) increases metabolic rate, thus heat rises
Control of Water Potential
 water potential: measure of tendency of water to pass between regions
 kidneys responsible for this; Anti Diuretic Hormone (ADH) controls how much water is reabsorbed into blood
 produced by hypothalimus, secreted from posterior pituitary gland
 hypo contains “osmoreceptors” that detect change in blood solute level, nerve impulses sent to pituitary to release or inhibit ADH
Blood Glucose Concentration Control
 a & b cells in pancreas have receptors that monitor level; if above 100 mg, insulin produced by b cells; if too low, a cells produce glucagon
 increase in insulin leads to increase use and storage of glucose
 increase in glucagon leads to breakdown of glycogen to glucose
Digestion
Digestive Juices
 digestive juices are secreted into the alimentary canals by salivary glands, stomach walls, pancreas and wall of small intestine
Contents
 saliva: mucin (protects soft-lining of mouth, lubricates food); buffer (neutralize acids to help prevent tooth decay); anitbacterial agents (kill bacteria); amylase (hydrolyzes starch and glycogen)
 gastric juices: hydrochloric acid (breaks matrix that binds cells, kills bacteria, pH 2); pepsin (hydrolyzes proteins, incomplete digestion)
 pancreatic juices: hydrolytic enzymes; alkaline solution (rich in bicarbonate); pancreatic amylase (maltase)
Membrane-bound Enzymes
 membrane-bound enzymes (entropephalase) triggers activation of zymogens, inactive forms of pancreatic enzymes; once zymmogens have been triggered, become active and begin to digest certain molecules (small polypeptides)
Structural Features
 examples of exocrine glands are sweat glands and glands that produce digestive enzymes; have internal secretion meaning don’t secrete product to blood; mucus cells secrete mucus to protect stomach; chief cells secrete pepsinogen; pariebal cells secrete hydrochloric acid to activate pepsinogen
Exocrine Glands
 secretory cells of gland produce product and secrete it (into acinus or blood)
 acini collect it, pass it to duct which lead to lumen or out of body
Secretion
 secretion is under nervous and hormonal control; triggered by nervous system by smell or taste of food; pepsinogen secretion stimulated by presence of gastrin released from pyloric section of stomach when food enters it
Starch
 amylase breaks down starch in mouth, food passed to stomach where protein digestion takes place; in duodenum, past stomach on way to small intestine, remainder of starch broken down to maltose, maltase breaks it into glucose, absorbed by epithelial cells of villi in small intestine, pased to bloodstream and to liver
Alimentary Canal
 cellulose is polysaccharide, doesn’t dissolve in water, first problem in digestion
 cellulose made from beta glucose, can’t be digested by amylase
 mammals don’t possess enzyme to digest cellulose
Pepsin & Trypsin
 both are proteases
 if produced in active form, would digest cell that made them
 produce as inactive precursors: pepsinogen and trypsinogen
 activated by presence of hydrochloric acid (HCl) and enterokinase respectively
Endopeptidase and Exopeptidase
 endopeptidases: hydrolyse peptide bonds between amino acids but not ends, responsible for first stage of digestion (pepsin and trypsin)
 exopeptidases: hydrolyse terminal peptide bonds; responsible for final stages of protein digestion (carboxypeptidase, aminopeptidase, dipeptidase)
Lipid Digestion
 lipids tough to digest because in hydrophilic enviro; lipase is water soluble but only has active site for hydrophobic lipids to bind to and can only work on surface of lipis sphere, thus very slow
 bile emulsifies fat (breaks it into smaller balls), hydrophobic end binds to lipid, hydrophilic end interacts with water, increase surface area and speed that lipase can digest lipid
Absorption of Digested Food
Strucutural Features
 have microvilli in lumen to increase SA; mitochondria provide energy for active transport of nutrients; vesicles for endocytosis of food; tight junctions/desmosomes maintain integrity of cell
Material Absorbed
 that which isn’t absorbed in intestine is egested: cellulose, lignin, bile pigments, bacteria and intestinal cells
Notes
 small intestine maximizes SA by having long skinny tube, get folds in lining, then get villi, then microvilli; all facilitate absorption
 5 th way to max absorption is it goes to bloodstream so maxes it through capillaries (about 1 red blood cell thick)
 length and fold of max SA, villi/microvilli approx 300 square metres
 2 types of absorption: passive (fructose, water) and active (through active transport); have cotransport which is own thing eg. ion exchanges
 absorption not going to blood stream is fat; broken down to glycerol and fatty acids; into lacteal and lymph, recombined, surrounded by protein, part hydrophobic, part hydrophilic
 what’s not absorbed goes to large intestine known as colon
 large intestine: absorption of water here, inorganic nutrients (primary absorber of water); e. coli, gas, amino acids, and vitamin (K) production
 rectum: storage and egestion; feces consists of undigested matter, fibre, bacteria (60% by mass), dead mucosal cells (stomach, small intestine and large intestine mucus layers)
 cellulose, bile pigments, water; bile that’s left over after absorption accounts for brown colour of human waste; fats and carbohydrates not immediately used goes to liver
The Functions of the Liver
Circulation of Blood
 carbohydrate metabolism; protein metabolism; lipid metabolsim; vitamin and mineral storage; formation and storage of erythrocytes; haemoglobin breakdown; bile production; hormone production/breakdown; detoxification; overall function is to maintain homeostasis of nutrients and molecules in body;
 bile 98% water and 2% salts, pigments, cholesterol; function is to emulsify fats
 functional part called acinus, contains branches of 3 bloodvessels, bile ductule and hepatocytes
 blood comes in from hepatic arteriole and portal venule through sinusoids to hepatic venule
 sinusoids: dilated, large, irregular lumen; spaces between lining endothelial cells facilitate exchanges; not continuous membrane material but forms hooplike rings
 kuppfer cells: line sinusoids; ingest foreign particles, involved in breakdown of erythrocytes
 bile produced by hepatocytes and movie in opposite direction of blood to bile ductules
Liver
 liver regulates level of nutrients in blood; needed because rate that nutrients are used isn’t constant, supply depends on how recently meals ingested; too high levels of nutirents are no good
 tores excess glucose and releases it into blood when blood glucose level drops
 glucose stored as glycogen, glucagon stimulates breakdown of glycogen and release of glucose
 proteins broken down by proteases and amino acids used to build new ones
Storage
 carbohydrate storage: intake of them creates fluctutations in blood glucose level in hepatic portal vein, level of glucose in blood elsewhere is the same
 glucose metabolism: glycogenesis (for storing glucose); glycogenolysis (for breaking down glycogen and mobilising glucose); gluconeogenesis (glucose produced from amino acids and glycerol in times of hypoglycaemia)
 storage of iron: iron carefully stored after haemoglobin broken down; difficult to absorb; will be used to create new haemoglobin, but until then it’s stored as ferritin
 vitamin a and d storage: capable of storing water soluble vitamins, but main ones are fat soluble like these
Bile Secretion
 bile secretion: yellow/green fluid made by liver, contains water, bile salts, bile pigments, inorganic salts and cholesterol; prodcued in hepatocytes through bile canaliculi to bile duct, empties into gall bladder; stored and concentrated in here
 when chyme interacts with duodenum, secretes CCK, promoting release of bile, travels through bile duct to pancreatic duct before going to duodenum
 too little bile salts raises concentration of cholesterol and causes gall stones
 bile pigments produced from breakdown of haemoglobin
Erythrocyte/hemoglobin breakdown
 breakdown of erythrocytes is a function, broken down by phagocytosis in Kupfer cells, spleen and bone marrow; hemoglobin packed within is released and broken down to heam and globin
 haem: iron containing prosthetic group; iron stored in liver, rest becomes biliverdin (green bile) which become bilirubin (yellow bile)
 globin: protein broken down to constituent amino acids; used in creation of other proteins
Synthesis of Plasma
 involved in production of plasma proteins
 extremely important constituent of blood plasma; most common is albumin (transports molecules like calcium, amino acids and hormones); also gamma gobulins that are anitbodies
 concentration of proteins determines water distribution in blood and intercellular fluid
 small change in # of dissolved particles can change rate of movement of water
Transport
Cardiac Cycle
 one heartbeat is one cardiac cycle
 blood enters atria, bicuspid and tricuspid valves open when atrial pressure > vent pressure
 2 atria contract simultaneously (atrial systole), blood goes to vents
 vents contract (vent systole), increases pressure in vents, closes tricuspid and bicuspid valves, opens semis, pushes blood to aorta & pulmonary artery, atria diastole
 vents diastole, some blood in aorta & pul vein tries to flow back, closes semis
 “lub” sound made by bicuspid and tricuspid valves closing; “dub” sound made by semis closing in arteries (vent systole = lub, vent diastole = dub)
Volume Changes During Cardiac Cycle
 volume changes as heart goes through cycle
 volume & pressure increases in atria when fills up w/blood; when systole occurs, volume decreases, pressure increases, then when diastole occurs, volume increases, pressure decreases
 left vent fills quickly & systole starts, pressure increases about 16 kPa in 0.1 seconds, pressure is high, volume decreases almost to 0%; during diastole, vent fills up w/blood, volume increases, pressure remains low until atrial systole forces blood to vent
 considerable differences in speed of blood flow throughout body, fastest in aorta, slowest in capillaries
 pressure in blood vessels varies by type, aorta highest, vena cava lowest
Heart Beat Mechanisms
 contractions of cardiac muscles starts from SA node, made of special muscle cells
 releases impulse at regular intervals, spread across wall of atria, simultaneous contractions
 impulse spreads to AV node, connected to bundle of cardiac fibers (His)
 impulse travels to apex of heart, spreads up through Purkinje tissue; causes vent contractions to start at apex and push up to arteries
 brain & some hormones can influence autonomousness of heart, impulses from sympathetic system increases heart rate; impulses from parasympathetic region decrease cardiac frequency
 adrenaline increases heart rate
 can replace SA node w/pacemaker
Atherosclerosis
 deposition of lipids on inner surface of arteries
 hinders blood flow, causes clots; lead to blockage of coronary artery & heart attack
Risk Factors of Coronary Heart Disease
 genetic factors
 old age
 gender (males > risk)
 smoking
 obesity
 diet (saturated fats and cholesterol)
 lack of exercise
Tissue Fluid & Lymph Formed…
 when blood gets to arteriole end of capillary bed, leaves to become tissue fluid
 composition very much like plasma, but larger molecules in blood (proteins) can’t pass through, number of leukocytes is variable
 blood remaining is more concentrated, leads to process of osmosis of tissue fluid back to blood vessels
 tissue fluid now has CO 2 and other wastes
 whatever tissue fluid doesn’t come back to blood vessels goes to lymph system
Transport Functions of Lymph System
 system of blind ending tubes, collects surplus fluid (called lymph)
 vessels drain to circ system in subclavian vein
 composition of lymph similar to tissue fluid (no proteins)
 3 major functions
removes surplus fluid from tissues
transports lipids absorbed in small intestine
plays role in defense
Gas Exchange
Partial Pressure
 pressure exerted by each component in mixture
 pressure of gas in mixture is the same as if alone in same volume at same temp
Dissociation Curves
 O 2 that enters lungs binds w/hemoglobin in blood cells
 amount of saturation of hemoglobin depends on concentration of O 2 in air
 first argument expressed as value between 0 (no binding) and 1 (complete binding); latter part noted as pO 2, partial pressure of O 2 in air
 generally an S-shaped curve, plateaus near 1 for saturation
 pO 2 depends on concentration of O 2 in air & air pressure; if concentration decreases, so does pO 2, same w/air pressure decrease
 body compensates in time by increasing number of blood cells
Myoglobin
 hemoglobin carries O 2 to muscles, then taken over by myoglobin; thus myoglobin has higher affinity for O 2, but still is able to release it when muscles demand it
 thus, hemoglobin curve is S-shaped, but myoglobin curve goes straight up like “root-x” curve
Fetal Hemoglobin
 hemoglobin of fetus must be able to “out-compete” maternal hemoglobin for O 2
 affinity for O 2 in fetal hemoglobin slightly higher than maternal, thus, curves both S-shaped, but fetal hemoglobin rises earlier
Carriage of Carbon Dioxide
 O 2 transported from lungs to tissue by hemoglobin, then becomes oxyhemoglobin
 CO 2 carried from tissues to lungs differently
 some binds to hemoglobin, becomes carbamino-hemoglobin
 some dissolved in plasma
most enters blood cell, changes it to HCO3- and goes to plasma
in blood cell, carbonic anhydrase turns it to H2 CO3 , then splits to H+ and HCO3-
 released H + breaks up oxyhemoglobin, O 2 absorbed by tissues
 hemoglobin acts as buffer molecule by accepting hydrogen ions, no major changes in blood pH
Bohr Shift
 as CO 2 increases, pH lowers and O 2 dissociation curve shifts right, saturation of hemoglobin reduced, O 2 released from hemoglobin
 CO 2 produced in cellular resp, increased CO 2 concentration reduces saturation of hemoglobin and release O 2 to cells
Ventilation Mechanism
 involves movement of rib cage and flattening of diaphragm
 inhalation increases lung volume (decreases pressure), contracts external intercostal muscles, relaxes internal
 outward & upward movement of ribs increases thorax cavity volume
 muscles in diaphragm contract, flatten its dome shape
 exhalation passive, brought by elasticity of tissues; internal intercostal muscles can force ribs down & abs push diaphragm up
Lung Cancer & Asthma and Effects on Gas Exchange System
Lung Cancer
 causes: smoking responsible for 83% of lung cancer deaths; passive smoking increases risks
 effects: persistent coughing, coughing up mucus/blood
 recurring pneumonia, smoke irritates air passages, produce more mucus
 system of cleaning air passages fails, pathogens have easier time getting in
 particles remain in lungs that could contain carcinogens
Asthma
 causes: hereditary, may be triggered by allergens (pollen, house dust mites, certain foods, etc.)
 effects: inflammation & constriction of bronchial tubes, leads to wheezing, coughing and resp troubles
Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation
 used to ventilate lungs of person not breathing
 expired air still has 16% O 2, enough for inactive person to obtain required amount
 the rest of this section is from swimming lessons/lifesaving stuffs…rescue breathing, CPR, etc.
Problem of Gas Exchange at High Altitudes
 pressure is less, partial pressure of O 2 is less; more difficult for body to take in O 2
 can suffer from mountain sickness (fatigue, nausea, breathlessness, headaches)
 solved in a few days, kidney releases alkaline urine, pulmonary ventilation increases
 bone marrow produces more erythrocytes for O 2 transport
 people that live up there have greater lung surface and larger vital capacity
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