Mikael,
Thank you for the informative post! It is appreciated!
You wrote...
> The endproduct of the digestion is
> Hexoses, pentoses (simple sugars), amino acids, di and tripeptides,
> and free fatty acids.
That is good info.
> The next step is called absorption and is the process by witch the
> nutrient is taken from the intestine to the bloodstream (sugars,
> aminoacids and free fatty acids whit less than 10-12 carbon atoms) or
> the lymph other fatty acids.
This answers the riddle if the nutrients go into the lymph or the blood...
the answer is BOTH.
> The carbohydrates is taken into the cells lining the intestine by
> three different mechanisms.
>1. Glucose and galactose is cotransported...
> 2. Fructose is taken in by transporters...
> 3. Pentoses is taken in by simple diffusion.
> From the cells to the bloodstream the sugars
> uses another transporter, Glut 2.
Where do these transporters reside, and where do they come from? Do people
ever get disease from transporter shortages?
> Aminoacids and peptides i stransported in a simmiliar way as the
> sugars.
I guess this will become clear with the answer to the last question. I am
wondering if a unpaired transporter is a biomolecule that drifts in the
blood or lymph, outside any cell.
> The free fatty acids is taken in to the cells by diffusion and when
> they are inside the cells the ones containing more than 10-12 carbons
> are esterified into triglycerides and coated whit a layer of protein,
> cholesterol and phospholipids to form what is known as chylomicrons
> and enter the lympha.
Does this mean the cells, whichever ones they are, secrete chylomicrons into
the lymph, and not into the bloodstream?
> When this thing is bound the transporter
> change its configuration so that the bound substans is transported
> trough the membrane.
Hmm... I guess you mean into the cell, right?
>... the pool of Glut 4 move to the
> cells membrane.
Let's see if I understand this. Free-floating glucose somehow penetrates
from the intestines to the blood without a transporter. It floats in the
bloodstream until it bumps into a cell that has Glut 4 expressed. Then the
Glut 4 sucks up the glucose. If we cave sugar, that is because a lot of
cells are expressing Glut 4. Right?
> The answer to why the immunsysten doesn't think that a nutrient is a
> antigen is becouse it is broken down into free fatty acids, amino
> acids and simple sugars.
That is quite true. I was trying to understand a mechanism that might allow
larger nutrients to enter the lymph or bloodstream, triggering Crohn's
Disease where the nutrients are attacked.
Thanks!
Dan
