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Name the digestive tract organs. (6)

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Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum

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What are some accessory glands to the digestive tract?

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Salivary glands, liver, gall bladder, pancreas.

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Where do exocrine cells secret to?

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Exocrine cells secrete into ducts.

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What three organelles are found in large amounts in the exocrine gland cells?

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Endoplasmic reticulum, mitochondria, secretory vesicles.

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What do secretory vesicles contain?

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Enzymes

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What are secretory cells in groups called?

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acini

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What is in saliva?

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Water, electrolytes, amylase, mucus, lysozymes (protects from pathogens)

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What is in gastric juice?

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Water, mucus, pepsin, HCl, rennin (chymosin)

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What is in pancreatic juice?

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Water, bicarbonate, amylase, lipase, carboxypeptidase, trypsinogen

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Is the mouth basic, neutral, or acidic?

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Slightly basic (pH 7-8)

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What receptors are present in the stomach? (2) What do they detect?

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Chemoreceptors detect peptide and Stretch receptors detect distention.

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What is digestive juice secretion controlled by? (2)

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Nerves/hormones

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What can the sight or smell of food cause your brain to do?

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Send nerve impulses to gland cells of the stomach wall to secrete pepsinogen and acid.

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What is secreted when the brain sends signals via the vagus nerve to the duodenum?

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Gastrin

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What does gastrin stimulate the secretion of? From where?

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Acid and pepsinogen from the stomach wall.

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What inhibits the secretion of gastrin if pH in stomach falls too low?

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Secretin and somatostatin

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Why is gastric juice acidic? (2)

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Low pH is optimal for pepsin and helps control pathogens.

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What was William Beaumont able to figure out about gastric digestion?

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That gastric digestion was both physical and chemical (not just chemical)

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Who got the gunshot that allowed doctors to study his stomach?

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Alexis St. Martin

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What type of infection can cause ulcers?

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Helicobacter pylori

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How can someone with H. Pylori bacteria be treated?

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A combination of antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors

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How can you detect H.pylori?

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H.pylori produces the enzyme urease so a urea breath test can be used. The patient is given some radioactive urea orally and see if they breath out radioactive carbon dioxide.

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How do proton pump inhibitors work?

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They irreversibly bind to ATPase or a protonpump to stop the acidic environment that is created by this proton pump.

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What did Marshall and Warren discover? Why was it hard for their results to be accepted?

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They discovered that antbiotics can cure ulcers but it was difficult for others to accept that as ulcers where known to be a result of excess stomach acid not a bacteria.

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18
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What does lipase do? Is it water-soluble or fat-soluble?

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Lipase is a water soluble enzyme that is designed to break down a hydrophobic substance. Can only access the surface of lipids.

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What does bile do to lipids? Why? Where is lipase made?

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emulsifies lipids to increase the surface area. lipase is made in the pancreas

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Draw the ileum.

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21
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What are the three parts of the small intestine in order?

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Duodenum, jejunum, ileum

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What does the epithelial cell of the villus contain?

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Pinocytotic vesicles, mitochondria

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What is the pinocytic vesicles for in the epithelial cell of the villus?

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Contains fluid and dissolved minerals from the lumen

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22
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What function in the villus ensures most materials will pass through cells before the blood?

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Tight Junctions

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Draw the villi cross section.

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24
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What happens to lipids in the epithelial cell? What is the end product called?

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They reassemble into triglycerides and become coated in proteins and chloresterol. This is called a lipoprotein complex.

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24
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What lipid forms diffuse into the villi membrane of the small intestine?

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Monoglycerides, bile salts, fatty acids

25
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What do lipoproteins enter? How do they travel to the blood?

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Lipoproteins enter the lacteal and travel through the lymphatic system to the circulatory system.

26
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What is the main function of the small intestine? (2)

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To complete digestion and to absorb the nutrients to distribute throughout the body.

26
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What is facilitated diffusion? What substances pass into the epithelium by facilitated diffusion? Why does it use this method of transport?

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Facilitated diffusion is the passive transport of molecules using integral proteins. Fructose passes into the epithelium by facilitated diffusion and it uses this method because it is hydrophilic.

26
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What things are absorbed into the epithelium via active transport? (3)

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Glucose, amino acids, some minerals

27
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How does active transport work to absorb sodium?

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Active transport sets up high concentrations of sodium in lumen so that it can make a passive re-entry of sodium accompanied by nutrients.

28
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What is the benefit of actively transporting materials into the epithelial cells?

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Can facilitate diffusion of those materials into the bloodstream.

29
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Are carbs absorbed whole into the small intestine?

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No, they are absorbed in there monomer form, ex glucose.

30
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What is the difference between endocytosis and pinocytosis?

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Pinocytosis is a form of endocytosis.

31
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What materials are not absorbed by the small intestine?

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Plant fibres (cellulose, lignin), bile pigments, bacteria, intestial cells

31
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What is absorbed via pinocytosis at the epithelial cells? (2)

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Small amounts of fluids and undigested fats.

32
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What causes cholera?

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The bacterium Vibrio cholera

32
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How is the toxin, cholera, brought into the cells?

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By endocytosis

33
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What does the bacterium cholera trigger in the cell? What does this lead to?

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A cascade response that leads to efflux of chloride ions and HCO3- irons from the epithelial cell into the intestine. Water follows and diaherra results.

33
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What structure brings oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the liver?

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Hepatic artery

34
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What structure brings blood from the gut to liver?

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Hepatic Portal Vein

35
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What does the hepatic portal vein divide into in the liver? What is that structure?

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Sinosiods which are a different type of capillaries that are wider and not continually lined with cells.

36
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What do sinosoids allow for? (2)

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Blood to come into contact with hepatocytes and allows proteins/albumin to enter and leave the blood.

36
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What are hepatocytes?

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Specialized liver cells that carry out functions such as detox.

36
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What is the hepatic artery divided into?

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Arterioles

37
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How does the hepatic artery get oxygen?

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Joins with sinusoids at various points.

38
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What do sinosoids merge into?

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Venules which lead to the hepatic vein and vena cava.

39
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How does the liver regulate blood nutrients? (2)

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Key role in glucose regulation and breaks down excess proteins and amino acids.

40
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What type of waste does the liver process?

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Nitrogenous waste

41
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Which nutrients does the liver store? (4)

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Carbs (stored in hepatocytes as glycogen), iron (breaks down dead erythrocytes and stores iron as ferritin), vitamin A (stores for use in vision, is fat soluble), vitamin D (stores for use in calcium uptake, is fat soluble)

42
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What is vitamin A a vital component of?

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Rhodopsin

43
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What two things does the liver synthesize? What is their purpose?

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Cholesterol(component in bile, animal cell membranes, component of steroid hormones) and Plasma proteins (albumin which regulates osmotic pressure and creates fibrinogen which is a precursor to fibrin)

44
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What is HDL?

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High density lipoprotein and is considered healthy as it helps remove LDL, “good cholesterol”

44
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What is LDL?

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Low density lipoprotein, “Bad” cholesterol

45
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Why do we have lipoproteins?

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Transport lipids from intestine to liver and throughout the blood

46
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What role does the liver play in detoxification?

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Liver cells(hepatocytes) absorb toxic substances from blood and convert them into less toxic substances.

46
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What does the liver break down alcohol into?

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Ethanol dehydrogenase

46
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What is the lifespan of an erthrocyte?

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120 days

47
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What is the difference between phagocytosis and pinocytosis?

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Phagocytosis engulfs solid material while pinocytosis engulfs fluids.

48
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What happens as red blood cells age?

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They swell and become engulfed (phagocytosis) by Kupffer cells.

48
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Where are Kupffer cells located?

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Line sinusoids of the liver.

48
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What happens to the erthrocyte inside the Kupffer cell?

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Hemoglobin is split into globin chains and heme group.

49
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What happens to the amino acids in the globin chains of the hemoglobin once it is engulfed by the Kupffer cell?

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It is recycled, digested by peptidases

50
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What happens to the heme group as it is being broken down in the Kupffer cells?

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It breaks into iron and bilirubin (bile pigment)

51
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Where can iron from the liver be transported to make red blood cells?

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Bone marrow

52
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What is produced during alcohol detoxification that can accumulate in the liver?

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Fatty acids

53
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What can long-term alcohol consumption cause liver fat storing cells to produce? What does it form?

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Collagen which forms scar tissue

53
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Is bile acidic or basic?

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It contains bicarbonate so it is basic.

53
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What is cirrhosis? What is it a deposition of?

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Scarred liver, it is the deposition of collagen

53
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What is the pathway of bile from the liver to the gall bladder?

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Heptocytes then bile canaliculi then gale bladder

54
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What can accumulation of fats in the liver cause? What is it?

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Hepatitis, it is the inflammation of the liver

55
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What is jaundice a build up of?

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Bilirubin (bile pigment)

56
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Is jaundice a disease? What is it a result of?

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No, it is a symptom. Can be a result of hepatitis, liver cancer, or obstruction of bile duct.

57
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What is newborn jaundice a result of?

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High turnover of red blood cells, which produces bilirubin. Liver can still be developing.

58
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How can you treat jaundice?

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Treat the disease or break down bilirubin in skin using a UV light.

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