Digestion and absorption of lipids
Cards (34)
- What is the role of digestive enzymes in digestion?
- What are triglycerides composed of?
- Why are lipids significant in terms of energy yield?
- Where does lipid digestion occur?
- What initiates lipid digestion in the mouth?
- What enzyme in saliva aids lipid digestion?
- What type of enzyme is lingual lipase?
- What does lingual lipase hydrolyze?
- What are the products of lipid digestion in the mouth?
- Which enzymes act on lipids in the stomach?
- What is the role of gastric lipase?
- What type of enzymes are both lingual and gastric lipases?
- What happens to lipids in the small intestine?
- How is the surface area of lipid droplets increased in the small intestine?
- What does the pancreas secrete for lipid digestion?
- What is the function of pancreatic lipase?
- How does the lipase co-lipase complex function?
- What does cholesterol esterase do?
- What is the role of phospholipase A2?
- What activates phospholipase A2?
- What is required for optimum activity of phospholipase A2?
- What does lysophospholipase do?
- What are the primary products of lipid digestion?
- What forms the mixed micelles in lipid digestion?
- How do micelles facilitate lipid absorption?
- What do short-medium chain fatty acids require for absorption?
- What happens to fatty acids and monoglycerides in enterocytes?
- What are chylomicrons composed of?
- What happens to chylomicrons after formation?
- How are chylomicrons released from enterocytes?
- What factors are essential for normal lipid absorption?
- What percentage of dietary fat is utilized?
- Which nutrients are not digested?
- What do some vegetables contain that is indigestible?