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How does the liver digest and filter food?
No, the stomach does. The liver prevents harmful substances from goig to your blodstream.
What are 4 ways the liver handles cell wastes?
The liver WEAKENS certain harmful substances
What organ detoxifies harmful substances?
lungs
Why is this blood carried to the live before it enters the systemic circulation?
it is carried to the liver to filter harmful substances,
How liver filters waste in the blood?
The liver handles cell wastes in a variety of ways: The liver WEAKENS certain harmful substances; The substances then become harmless. The liver CHANGES some harmful substances. These substances then become useful to the body. The liver also creates bile from harmful substances. Bile is important in fat digestion. After the bile works on fat, it is eliminated in the bowels. The liver also COMBINES certain harmful substances to further prepare them for excretion. EX: The liver combines two harmful wastes -- ammonia and some carbon dioxide. Together, these substances form urea. The blood then carries the urea to the kidneys, where it becomes a part of urine. Then the substances are excreted.
What do the liver and pancreas produce to assist digestion?
It produces bile that breaks down fats and toxins into less harmful substances
What functions as a protective covering that resists harmful substances and organisms and prevents extreme water loss?
Skin, or the integumentary system, acts as a protective covering that prevents the entry of harmful substances and organs, and prevents extreme water loss.
How does the liver help the nervous system?
it filters out all the poisonous and harmful substances in our system. it is one of the main components in our immune system.
What detoxifies harmful substances like alcohol formaldehyde and disarms free radicals?
Peroxisome "Peroxisomes, like lysosomes, are enzyme-containing sacs. However, their oxidases have a different task. Using oxygen, they detoxify a number of harmful substances, most importantly free radicals. Peroxisomes are particularly abundant in kidney and liver cells, cells that are actively involved in detoxification." (Credit to Authors Elaine N. Marieb and Susan J. Mitchell)
What organs is endoplasmic reticulum most abundant?
Organs that would contain a lot of er including smooth e.r. would be the liver and the kidneys places where detoxification of anything thats not a proper substrate or foreign substances I.E. alcohol, drugs, chemicals and so on. Keeping the body clean and free of harmful substances.
How do liver cells work?
They work well unless you drink alcohol. Basically a liver cell filters out substances taht can be harmful to the body, but alcohol and a number of other less popular substances severely damage the abilities of the liver cells over time. All i really know about liver cells is that there also called hepatocytes. LFTs or liver function tests can be used to assess the functioning of the liver cells. I guess that they receive oxygen via diffision.
What are the natural defenses that your body has against harmful substances and disease?
Your body uses antibodies to attack any harmful substances in your body. These harmful substances are called antigens.
