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The exocrine pancreas /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pandol, Stephen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan and Claypool, [2011]
Series:Colloquium digital library of life sciences.
Colloquium series on integrated systems physiology, from molecule to function. # 14.
Subjects:
Pancreas, Exocrine.
Pancreatic acinar cells.
Acinar cell
Amylase
Centroacinar cell
Cholecystokinin
Condensing vacuole
Cystic fibrosis
Digestion
Digestive enzymes
Duct cell
Endoplasmic reticulum
Lipase
Lysosome
Pancreas
Secretin
Secretion
Trypsinogen
Unfolded protein response
Zymogen granule
Zymogens
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Description
Abstract:The secretions of the exocrine pancreas provide for digestion of a meal into components that are then available for processing and absorption by the intestinal epithelium. Without the exocrine pancreas, malabsorption and malnutrition result. This chapter describes the cellular participants responsible for the secretion of digestive enzymes and fluid that in combination provide a pancreatic secretion that accomplishes the digestive functions of the gland. Key cellular participants, the acinar cell and the duct cell, are responsible for digestive enzyme and fluid secretion, respectively, of the exocrine pancreas. This chapter describes the neurohumoral pathways that mediate the pancreatic response to a meal as well as details of the cellular mechanisms that are necessary for the organ responses, including protein synthesis and transport and ion transports, and the regulation of these responses by intracellular signaling systems. Examples of pancreatic diseases resulting from dysfunction in cellular mechanisms provide emphasis of the importance of the normal physiologic mechanisms.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Part of: Colloquium digital library of life sciences.
Series from website.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 56 pages) : illustrations
Also available in printing.
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat reader.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 45-56).
ISBN:9781615041398 (electronic bk.)
ISSN:2154-5626 ;
DOI:10.4199/C00026ED1V01Y201102ISP014
Access:Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers.