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        | discrete organs that carry out mastication, solubilization, digestion, absorption, and excretion |  | 
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        | mucosa, submucosa, muscularis externa, adventitia or serosa |  | 
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        | epithelium, lamina propria, muscularis mucosae |  | 
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        | tall columnar cells comprised of stem cells, absorptive cells, and secretory cells |  | 
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        | stratified, squamous, non-keratinized |  | 
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        | lamina propria (in mucosa) |  | Definition 
 
        | highly cellular, reticular CT highly vascularized
 smooth muscle, T, B, plasma cells (IgA)
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        | in mucosa 2 layers of SM
 found in inner circular and outer longitudinal layer
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        | dense, fibrous CT elastic and collagen fibers
 large vasculature
 Meissner plexus
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        | inner cicular (tight) and outer longitudinal (loose) helices of SM skeletal m. in esopho and anal sphincter
 Auerbch n. plexus
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        | layers of loose CT and collagen or elastic fibers covered with mesothelium
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        | oral and pharyngeal mucosa |  | Definition 
 
        | only two true layers: epithelium and lamina propria |  | 
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        | stratified squamous epithelium, kept moist by sero-mucous glands in LP -from ectoderm
 -thicker than epidermis
 -migrating lymphocytes
 -renewed every 1-2 weeks
 -subject to mechanical abrasion where it keratinizes
 -papillae
 -taste buds
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        | filiform, fungiform, circumvallate |  | 
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        | make up 2/3 of ant. tongue conical, pointed structures
 sensory nerve endings
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        | anterior tongue (mostly tip) mushroom shaped
 contain taste buds
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        | largest 9-12 along sulcus terminalis
 have crypts
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        | primary organ of taste made up of supporting and taste cells
 continual loss and replacement
 glands of von Ebner
 located in crypts of CP
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        | hair on apical side of this cell is composed of intertwined long microvilli that function as sensory receptor |  | 
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        | located in LP secretion (lipase) washes out crypts to process new stimuli
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        | CT below epithelium rich in collagen fibers and lymphocytes
 contain tubuloalveolar and mixed sero/mucous salivary glands
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        | contains interwoven bundles of skeletal muscle ventral: non-keratinized epithelium
 dorsal: keratinized epithelium
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        | major salivary glands: parotid
 submandibular
 sublingual
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        | -provide saliva for lubrication -secrete amylase, IgA, defensins etc
 -compound tubuloalveolar
 -divided into lobes and lobules
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        | serous, mucous, myoepithelial, intercalated ducts, striated ducts, interlobular ducts |  | 
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        | in acini or demilunes secrete: proteins, glycoproteins and amylase
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        | in tubules secrete mucous for lubrication
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        | around intralobular ducts contract to expel acinar secretions
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        | between acini and striated ducts of parenchyma conduct saliva, ions
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        | striated ducts (intralobular) |  | Definition 
 
        | between intercalated and interlobular ducts of parenchyma conduct saliva
 resorb Na+
 secrete K+
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        | surround by CT of septa conduct saliva
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        | O-MALT (organized mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue) |  | Definition 
 
        | "wet" lymphatic aggregates -contain mucosal plasma cells that secrete IgA
 -no Afferent lymphatics
 -M cells
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        | in Peyer's patches of Ileum (but also tonsils) -antigen transcytosis
 -pathogenic bacteria/viruses take ADVANTAGE
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        | high doses of antigens in the oral cavity allow us to eat and not have an inflammatory rxn
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        | large, partially encapsulated, wet lymphoid tissue that encircle entrance to pharynx -some efferent, but NO AFFERENT lymphatics
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        | stratified squamous non-keratinized epithelium penetrated by crypts
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        | pharyngeal tonsils (adenoid) |  | Definition 
 
        | projects from nasopharynx covered by resp. epithelium
 no crypts
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        | base of tongue stratified squamous non-keratinized epi
 short crypt on each aggregate
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