Liver - Bile salts
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How to bile salts work?
2. Bile acids emulsify lipids and turns them into smaller lipids by dissolving their fat soluble parts with the surface of the lipids and decreasing their surface tension
3. This allows for higher surface area, pancreatic lipase has an easier time breaking down triglycerides into FFAs and monoglycerides
4. Micelles form (hydrophillic parts outside, hydrophobic parts inside) to transport monoglycerides and FFAs to intestinal epithelial cell borders
What happens to micelles at the brush border of the intestinal epithelial cells?
2. Bile salts diffuse back into chyme to be used for transport again in the ileum
What happens to bile salts in anaerobic guts?
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What happens in overgrowth of bacteria in the small intestine?
Where and how are bile salts recycled?
When can bile salts not be reused?
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