Hepatic Portal Vein, Hepatic Artery and Bile Duct.
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What do Kuppfer cells do?
Protect against disease by ingesting foreign particles.
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What is the bile canaliculus?
The hepatocytes secrete bile into the BILE CANALICULUS, which then carries the bile to the call bladder via the bile duct.
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What is a hepatocyte?
A liver cell.
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How does the liver metabolise carbohydrates?
When the hormone insulin binds to receptors in the liver, glucose from carbohydrates is converted into glycogen for storage. When glucagon is detected, the stored glycogen is converted back into glucose.
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What is the process of deamination?
Damination is the removal of an amine group from an amino acid.
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What is the ornithine cycle?
Where the toxic ammonia produced in deamination is converted into useful products and UREA.
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What is transanimation?
The process of converting essential amino acids into non-essential amino acids.
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What is detoxification?
The process of breaking down toxins such as alcohol and hydrogen peroxide.
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What is liver cirrhosis?
When liver tissue is replaced by fibrous scar tissue.
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What do Kuppfer cells do?
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Protect against disease by ingesting foreign particles.
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