Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transport. Show all posts

Sunday, September 8, 2013

The transport mechanism of monosaccharides across the intestinal mucosal cells.


o   Monosaccharides are formed by single saccharide molecules.
o   We normally talk about glucose, fructose & galactose as monosaccharides. There are so many except these three.
o   When we talk about starches, they are digested to various types of monosaccharides, disaccharides by gut enzymes secreted from various organs like pancreas.
o   There are same enzymes which digest disaccharides to monosaccharides. They are placed on brush border of the mucosal cells. Isomoltase, Moltase, Sucrose.
o   After the digestion final product is monosaccharides & they are transported across the intestinal mucosal cells to the portal system by various transport mechanisms.


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