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Physiology Practice Test: The Gastrointestinal System
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Physiology Practice Test: The Gastrointestinal System
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1. Pancreatic lipase degrades triglycerides into ________.
2. Which of the following sphincters is composed of skeletal muscle?
3. As the food is broken into smaller pieces in the mouth, it is combined with ________ that facilitates its movement down the esophagus.
4. What enzymes secreted by the exocrine pancreas degrade fats?
5. What cells secrete pepsinogen into the lumen of the stomach?
6. ________ ions are produced within the parietal cells and transported across the apical membrane via an active transporter while, at the same time, ________ moves across the apical membrane through ion channels.
7. What do the secretory cells in the crypts of Lieberkuhnʹs secrete?
8. Which of the following is NOT one of the components of saliva?
9. The absorption of glucose involves ________ across the apical membrane and ________ across the basolateral membrane.
10. What layer of the mucosa is connective tissue that contains blood vessels and lymphatic vessels?
11. Many individual amino acids enter the epithelial cells that line the lumen of the digestive tract via what transport process?
12. Digestion products of lipases are readily exchanged in the lumen with ________.
13. The enteric nervous system is located entirely in the gastrointestinal tract.
14. What protects the stomach wall from the acidic lumenal contents?
15. What does the secretion of leptin cause?
16. Which of the following is NOT one of the hormone-related functions of the liver?
17. Which of the following is NOT one of the wastes that is eliminated by the liver in bile?
18. Once the chyme begins to enter the duodenum, it must first be ________ before any of the enzymes in the pancreatic juices can be activated.
19. What cells function to secrete hydrogen ions into the lumen of the stomach?
20. The muscle layers for segmentation and peristalsis are located in the muscularis mucosae.
21. One side of a hepatocyte faces the blood while the other faces what?
22. What membrane lines the abdominal cavity?
23. What enzyme cleaves trypsinogen to trypsin?
24. To increase the absorptive efficiency of the small intestine, the surface area of the mucosa is increased by the presence of folds in the wall called ________, and projections of the cell membrane called ________.
25. What is the brush border?

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