liver
- Created by: nancy plant
- Created on: 13-01-14 09:18
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- Liver
- Excretion
- Removal of wast products from metabolic processed from the body
- Hepatic artery
- Supplies liver with oxygenated blood from heart
- Good supply of oxygen for respiration = energy
- Hepatic vein
- takes deoxygenated blood away from heart
- Hepatic Portal Vein
- brings blood from small intestine. ingested harmful substances are filtered out and broken down straight away
- Bile Duct
- takes bile to gall bladder to be stored
- Histology
- lobules
- Hepatocytes
- Kupffer cells
- remove bacteria and break down old red blood cells
- Deamination
- Breaks down excess amino acids
- Amino acid -> ammonia + organic acids
- organic acid
- Respired to ATP
- Converted to carbohydrate and stored as glucogen
- Ammonia + CO2 is combined and excreted
- Breaks down excess amino acids
- Excretion
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