This topic uses the AIM Learning Cycle to help MBBS students understand intestinal physiology.
1. Curriculum Coverage
Physiology
• Types of movements of small intestine
• Control of peristalsis
• Nervous regulation
• Hormonal regulation
• Secretion of mucus by Brunner’s glands in the duodenum
• Pancreatic enzymes
. Chemistry of pancreatic enzymes
- Secretion
- Functions
- Regulation
• Intestinal digestive enzymes
• Secretion from crypts of Lieberkühn
• Gastrointestinal hormones
- Gastrin
- Secretin
- CCK
- Other GI hormones
• Abnormal digestion in pancreatic failure
• Malabsorption in sprue