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What are the major roles of the villi and microvilli in the small intestine?
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∙ 9y ago
Villi are responsible for absorbing nutrients from the small intestine into the bloodstream, for transport to the liver and other cells. In order to increase the amount of nutrients taken into the bloodstream, each villus itself has dozens of microvilli, to increase greatly the surface area.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 9y agoThe villi and the microvilli of the intestinal tract are tasked with trapping the nutrient particles. The extended surface area help to absorb the maximum percentage of the available nutrients.
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What lines the small intestine?
Microvilli
What types of tissue can have have microvilli?
Cells that line the small intestine are covered with microvilli for increased absorption.
The brush border is located in the?
Small Intestine
The surface area of the small intestine is increased by?
microvilli
What has microvilli and goblet cells and is located in the digestive tract?
small intestine
Nutrients in the small intestine enter the bloodstream by passing through?
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How do microvilli help with absorption?
The microvilli have finger-like shapes originating from the villi that line the small intestine. They greatly increase the surface area of individual cells when it comes to absorbing nutrients.
What finger like projections which increase the surface of the small intestine?
Villi or microvilli
What is the difference between a villi and microvilli?
Both are found inside the small intestine, are microscopic, and are used to increase the surface area of the small intestine. Villi are tiny microscopic folds in the small intestine lining. Microvilli are little hairlike projections from individual epithelial cells of the small intestine. They have capillaries and a lacteal that lead to the circulatory and lymph systems to transport nutrients that are absorbed.
What nephron structures are involved with absorption?
The small and large intestines. The small intestine contains blood capillaries and lymph vessels.
What is the large surface of the small intestine?
The large surface area of the small intestine is achieved by a combination of anatomical features such as the plicae circularis, the vili, and the microvilli.
Microvilli on the surface of the villi greatly increase the internal surface area of the?
small intestine
