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Liver
The liver is a reddish brown gland that secretes digestive juices to aid in the digestion and absorption of food.
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Why do people get liver blood clots in their mouth after a tooth ext?
Because the extraction site in the mouth is healing, and the liver clot is a way of healing it.
It is actually "chopped liver," which is a Jewish delicacy. It often sounds like "chop liver" when used in the expression "What am I, chopped liver?"
Urea is made from ammonia filtered out of the blood by the nephrons in the kidney. As ammonia is a highly toxic substance to humans, and humans have moderate water supplies, it undergoes multiple chemical reactions to convert from ammonia to urea which is diluted to urine and excreted out of the urethra.
from the blood, into the kidneys, into the NEPHRONS:
okay so the blood flows through capillaries called the GLOMERIUS (spelling...?) where blood pressure squeezes it out into the the bowl the glomerius is in called BOWMAN's CAPSULE. through the proximal tubule, loop of henle, distal tubule, collecting duct into the RENAL PELVIS thorough the URETER to the BLADDER down through the URETHRA
Does insulin mobilize liver glycogen to yield glucose?
No, insulin stimulates the liver to produce glycogen from glucose. Glucagon mobilizes liver glycogen to yield glucose.
A large liver is simply a liver that is abnormally big compared to the size of your body. It is the same as an enlarged liver.
What happens to the liver kidney heart and lungs when you smoke?
It damages the liver,kidney heart & lung and causes cancer.
Bilirubin is a normal component of the body. It is not a condition that requires treatment.
What are the symptoms of liver problem?
Pale Urine and Dark Stool - On account of misplaced Bilirubins.
Jaundice (Yellow skin, eyes, gums) on account of liver not being able to purify certain enzymes.
Abdominal pain.
There are some more depending on the specific disease, but those are the four main ones.
Does a cheek cell contain the same chromosomes as a liver cell?
Yes. In an individual, almost all cells contain DNA (Red Blood Cells do not). That DNA is tightly wound like you would twist a drawstring, and kept tightly coiled as chromosomes. Since chromosomes can be found in a cheek cell, a liver cell (hepatocyte), and almost all other cells, they all contain the same chromosomes, which inevitably have the same genes. What makes cheek cells different from liver cells is which genes are turned on and off. Cheek cells have different genes turned on compared to liver cells.
When hydrogen peroxide works as a tooth whitener what does is break down into?
Hydrogen peroxide is unstable. It wants to break down. And when hydrogen peroxide breaks down spontaneously, it breaks down into water and oxygen according to this formula: 2H2O2 => 2H2O + O2 But when hydrogen peroxide comes into contact with anything, the "extra" oxygen atom is "looking for a new home" in a chemical sense, and it will react directly with whatever it can (according to chemical principles) to form a new compound. This at the heart of oxidation and it is what makes H2O2 an oxidizer. The reaction and the end products will depend on what the H2O2 comes into contact with, but water will be one of the things produced. The question is what did the oxygen do? Anything on tooth enamel that the oxygen can react with will be oxidized, and this will "remove" a lot of the stuff and "whiten" the teeth. We know that H2O2 is very reactive and is a powerful oxidizer. That's the nature of its chemistry.
What does the liver do in the digestion?
The liver aids in digestion by delivering bile to the duodenum (the first portion of the small intestine) through the hepatic duct which feeds then into the common bile duct.
Whether there is possibility of carcinoma from parenchymal liver disease?
Risk is increased if there is cirrhosis, for example alcoholic or viral hepatitis related.
Does the food pass through the liver?
The actual food does not pass through the liver. However, the veins from the gastrointestinal-tract lead directly to the liver.
What happens when the liver has no glycogen reserve?
total absence of glycogen in the liver may be rare but rather an abnormally low levels of glycogen is more common. This could be as a result of an impairment in any of the enzymes involved in glycogen synthesis. Now, when glycogen is low,the body will look for another source of energy. The next immediate source is fatty acid . Hence low glycogen levels will lead rapid breakdown of fatty acids which when it becomes continuous can cause weight loss.. but the brain poorly utilizes fatty acids for energy production... hence a continous depletion of glycogen levels may result in some neurological impairments..
Hopefully this will help you The liver secretes bile which aids in the breakdown of lipids into fatty acids. The enzymes which speeds up the rate of the digestion of lipids is Lipase, and this is secreted by the pancreas.
The pancreas also secretes many other enzymes including: Two protease's are trypsin and chymotrypsin. These enzymes speed up the rate in which protein is digested into amino acids.
Amylase is also produced in the pancreas (As well as the salivary glands in the mouth), and amylase breaks down starch into maltose molecules
Why does the liver produce too much bile?
There are quite a number of a reasons the liver may produce too much bile. These reasons are overeating, lack of exercise, peptic ulcer, food quality, and some surgeries.
