All right, folks, it's now time to focus on the pancreas. We can orient ourselves to our image here. We see this sort of longish yellow organ here kind of tucked right up against the small intestine, that first section of the small intestine, the duodenum. And we'll look at that anatomy in more detail coming up. Right now, we want to focus on what it is that the pancreas is producing. What is it that it's putting into the duodenum to aid in chemical digestion? Alright. So we're going to start by saying the pancreas is a glandular organ that produces enzymes and hormones. Now those hormones, however, are part of the endocrine system, so we'll deal with that there. These enzymes, that's what we want to focus on because that's what's going to aid in chemical digestion. Now those enzymes are released as part of the pancreatic juice, and the pancreatic juice is going to be a mixture of water, inactive enzymes, and bicarbonate. Now I just want to note when I say water, it's actually a fair amount. Over 1 liter of pancreatic juice is produced every single day. So every single day, you're producing more than this soda bottle's worth of pancreatic juice and putting it into that small intestine. Now considering that the pancreas is something like less than a quarter of the size of this soda bottle, that strikes me that it's producing a lot of liquid. Alright. The chief thing in that liquid that we want to talk about though is that it is releasing as part of it, these inactive enzymes that become active in the duodenum. Alright. Inactive enzymes that become active. Remember, that's reminiscent of what happened in the stomach. Remember, in the stomach, we had pepsin, that enzyme that digested protein, but it didn't become active until it was mixed in with the chyme. Same thing here. These enzymes in the pancreatic juice, they digest large biomacromolecules. But that's what you are made of. Right? So you don't want to digest yourself. You don't want to digest your own pancreas. So they are released as inactive enzymes and only become activated when they're mixed in with the chyme with those food molecules. We're going to say here that that prevents the pancreas from digesting itself. Alright. So now let's look at this composition of this pancreatic juice. Let's see what's really in there. So we have this Erlenmeyer flask here filled with pancreatic juice. We can see the molecules in there. It has this little warning pancreatic juice label on it. So let's see what's actually in there. First, well, we mentioned bicarbonate. Bicarbonate is going to make this pancreatic juice alkaline, and that is going to neutralize the chyme. So the chyme is coming in from the stomach, so it has that really low pH from the gastric juice. This is going to make that more neutral. It's going to allow the enzymes to be active, and it is also going to protect the small intestine. Alright. Now we have 4 other things here, and these 4 other things are enzymes that digest our 4 major classes of biomacromolecules. First off, we have amylase. Amylase is an enzyme that digests starches. So we digest starch into smaller molecules that will eventually get broken down even more into those simple sugars, which can be absorbed in the small intestine. We're going to have proteases. Proteases digest protein. Now we're going to release a few proteases, but I want to call one out. We release trypsinogen, which gets activated into the enzyme trypsin. Now I'm calling this one out because trypsin's job is, well, like other proteins, to digest the proteins in your food, but it also activates the other enzymes. So trypsinogen gets released and there's an enzyme in the small intestine that converts that to trypsin. That trypsin then goes breaking down the proteins in your food and turning on your other enzymes. Alright. One of those enzymes it is going to turn on is going to be a lipase. Well, there are actually a couple of lipases in there. A lipase will digest lipids, the fats in your foods. And lipase, well, we had some lipase that was released in the stomach as well, but in the pancreatic juice, that's going to really be the main source of the lipases. This is really where you get your lipases for digesting the fats in your diet. Alright. Finally, we have nucleases, and nucleases digest nucleic acids. Now you may not think of things like DNA and RNA as being nutrition in the food you eat, but it's there and you break them down. Now there's not a lot of DNA and RNA compared to these other molecules that you're digesting, but you do break them down. You absorb those sugars from the backbone of the DNA and RNA, and you absorb those bases as well. Alright. So that's what the pancreas makes. We're going to focus on its structure, its anatomy next. Before we get there, we got practice and examples. I'll see you there.
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