Liver Anatomy & Functions Flashcards
How much cardiac output does the liver produce
25%
Name the 4 lobes
Major- left and right
Minor - caudate and quadrate
List the main ducts in the liver
Common hepatic
Cystic
From gallbladder
- common bile duct/ joining pancreatic duct at hepatipancreatic ampulla
Where do the common bile duct and pancreatic duct join
Hepatopancreatic ampulla
Name the capsule of connective tissue surrounding the liver
Glisson’s capsule
What do the hepatic artery and portal vein supply
Artery- oxygen rich
Vein- nutrient rich
What does the celiac artery filter blood from
Stomach spleen and pancreas
What does the superior mesentric artery collect blood from
Pancreas
SI
Colon
What does the inferior mesentric artery collect blood from
Colon
Where does the portal vein deposit its contents
Sinusoids
Describe the structure of liver lobules
Hexagonal structure containing hepatocytes
Radiate outward from central vein
At each six corners is a portal triad
Contains sinusoids
Other terms for hepatic cells
Hepatocytes
Function of sinusoids
Specialised capillaries large and fenestrated
Function of kupffer cells
Fixed macrophages with phagocytic function
Function of stellate cells
Storage of vit A, when activated become fibrous
Function of basolateral membrane
Between hepatocytes and space of disse
Has microvilli
Function of apical membrane
Makeup bile canaliculi
Where is oxygen highest and metabolic pathways that occur
Periportal cells
Gluconeogenesis/ b oxidation
Nutrient/ oxygen
Where is o2 supply the lowest and metabolic pathways that occur
Central vein
Glycolysis
Lipogenesis
B catenin/ signalling
Liver injury at periportal cells
Autoimmune hep
Iron overload injury
Billiary cirhosis
Liver injury at central vein
Nafld
Drug alcohol toxicity
Parasite infection fibrosis
Describe the route of bile
Bile canaliculi to bile duct
Then common hepatic duct
Function of bile
Emulsify fats
What is stored in gallbladder and how is it stimulated
Bile not immediately needed for digestion, stimulated by CCK & secretin
What are bile acids derived from
Cholestrol
Mechanism of Action of bile- how does it work
In conjugation to taurine and glycine, increases polarity of molecules
Function of sinusoidql transporter ntcp
Bile acid transporter, symport with sodium
Function of oatp sinusoidal transporter
Organic anion transporter protein
Into hepatocyte and blood
Function of oct
Into hepatocyte and blood
Function of mrp4
Transport drug metabolite back into blood
Function of biliary transporter mrp2
Bilirubin transported to bile
Function of biliary transporter abcg
Cholestrol
Function of biliary transporter mdr3
Pc
Function of biliary transporter bsep
Bile salts
Function of biliary transporter mdr1
Drug and metabolites
Function of biliary transporter bcrp
Steroid derivatives
Function of mdr1, abcb1 (p gylcoprotein) in the body
Found in liver gi tract kidneys and brain
Pump materials out of brain,
Activity can be both induced and inhibitted
Enzyme which activates bilirubin
Uridine glucournayl transferase
Methods of excretion for bile
Feces
Urine
Enterohepatic circulation
Functions of liver
Metabolic
Synthesis
Breakdown
Storage of vitamins
Excretion of waste products from blood stream to bile
Carbohydrate and lipid metabolism
Gluconeogenesis
Glycogenolysis
Glycogenesis
Cholestrol synthesis
Lipogenesis
At basal state what happens to blood sugar levels
Decreased glucose and insulin
Increased glucagon
At starved state what happens to blood sugar levels
Decreased insulin and glucose
Increased glucagon
Acetyl CoA supply straight to the brain
Hormones involved in glycogen mobilisation
Insulin
Glucagon
Adrenaline
Target organs involved in glycogen mobilisation
Liver and muscle
Key enzymes regulated from glycogen mobilisation
Glyogen synthase and phosphorylase
Function of glycogen phosphorylase
Removal of glucose residues
How is glycogen phosphorylase controlled
Kinase - active
Phosphatase- inactive
Why is glycogen synthase switched off
Stop a futile cycle