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24 Cards in this Set
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What is the predominant cell of the liver?
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The hepatocyte
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This cell in the liver is responsible for bile formation
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The hepatocyte
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This cell in the liver is responsible for destruction of RBCs
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The hepatocyte
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This cell stores glycogen in the liver
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Hepatocytes
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If the liver needs to generate heat, this cell does it.
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The hepatocyte
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Substances absorbed by the gut pass through liver before entering general circulation T/F
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What is a hepatic sinusoid?
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A type of sinusoidal blood vessel (with fenestrated, discontinuous endothelium) that serves as a location for the oxygen-rich blood from the hepatic artery and the nutrient-rich blood from the portal vein
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A type of sinusoidal blood vessel (with fenestrated, discontinuous endothelium) that serves as a location for the oxygen-rich blood from the hepatic artery and the nutrient-rich blood from the portal vein
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Hepatic sinusoid
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Hepatic sinusoids are lined by discontinuous vascular endothelial epithelium. What is the name for this?
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Sinusoidal endothelial cells
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A type of hepatic macrophage, phagocytosing microbes and erythrocytes, as well as LDL and immune complexes - also stores metals (Cu, Co, Fe - coffee!)
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Kuppfer cell
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A type of hepatic macrophage, phagocytosing microbes and erythrocytes, as well as LDL and immune complexes - also stores metals (Cu, Co, Fe - coffee!)
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Kupffer cell
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A thin tube that collects bile secreted by hepatocytes. The...merge and form bile ductules, which eventually become common hepatic duct.
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Bile canaliculi
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What is a bile canaliculus?
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A thin tube that collects bile secreted by hepatocytes. The...merge and form bile ductules, which eventually become common hepatic duct.
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This organ stores, concentrates and expels bile T/F
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Bile does not actually become more concentrated during its time in the gall bladder. T/F
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F - it does become more concentrated
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What is the epithelium of the gall bladder's mucosa?
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Columnar epithelium
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The gall bladder does not have a submucosa, why not?
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It has no muscularis mucosae
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In what part of the gall bladder or goblet cells and mucous-secreting glands present?
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The neck of the gall bladder
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Glands that secrete their products (excluding hormones and other chemical messengers) into ducts (duct glands) which lead directly into the external environment
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Exocrine glands
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What are exocrine glands?
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Glands that secrete their products (excluding hormones and other chemical messengers) into ducts (duct glands) which lead directly into the external environment
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A system of glands, each of which secretes a type of hormone into the bloodstream to regulate the body.
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Endocrine system
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What is the endocrine system?
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A system of glands, each of which secretes a type of hormone into the bloodstream to regulate the body.
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What is an 'acinus'?
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Any cluster of cells that resembles a many-lobed "berry,"
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Any cluster of cells that resembles a many-lobed "berry,"
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An acinus
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