LIVER TO LIVER FUNCTION TESTS Flashcards
What is the weight of Liver in Kilogram?
1.3-1.5 kgs
Where do liver located?
Below lungs
Right upper abdomen
It is the largest and heaviest internal organ.
Liver
Color of the Liver?
Reddish-brown
Shape of Liver?
Cone-shaped
4 Lobes of Liver
Right & Left Lobe
Caudate & Quadrate Lobe
What are the larger Lobes?
Right & Left Lobe
What are the smallest Lobes?
Caudate & Quadrate Lobe
Which of the smaller lobe is at the upper part?
Caudate Lobe
Which of the smallest lobe is at the lower part?
Quadrate Lobe
7 Parts of Liver
Common Hepatic Duct
Falciform Ligament
Glisson’s Capsule
Hepatic Artery
Hepatic Portal Vein
Lobules
Peritoneum
It carries the bile out of the liver.
Common Hepatic Duct
It is a thin filamentous membrane that separates the right and left lobe.
Falciform Ligament
It is a layer of loose connective tissue that covers the adjacent ducts.
Glisson’s Capsule
What are the adjacent organs?
Gastrointestinal Tract
Pancreas
Gallbladder
Spleen
This is the MAIN blood vessel that carries oxygenated blood to the liver.
Hepatic Artery
A blood vessel that carries blood from adjacent organs to liver.
Hepatic Portal Vein
It is called as functional unit of the liver.
Lobules
A membrane that covers the liver to form its exterior aspects.
Peritoneum
What are the cells in the Liver?
Hepatocytes
Kupffer Cells
Stellate Cells
Oval Cells
It conjugate the bilirubin and contribute to the regenerative properties of the liver.
Hepatocytes
Kupffer cells are also known as:
Macrophages
It is a cell that derived from monocytes.
Kupffer Cells
Lungs:______
Bone:______
Brain:______
Skin:______
Connective Tissues:_______
Alveolar
Osteoclasts
Microglial cells
Langerhans cells
Histiocytes
A cell found in the spaces between endothelial lining of hepatocytes.
Stellate cells
Stellate Cells is synthesize by _____ to regulate blood flow through the liver.
Nitric Oxide
Stellate Cells are also known as:
ito Cells
Oval Cells is also known as:
The Liver’s STEM CELLS
What are the Physiologic Functions?
Metabolic Function
Synthetic Function
Conjugation Function
Detoxification & Drug Metabolism
Excretory & Secretory Function
Storage Function
What are the substances in metabolic function?
Carbohydrates
Ammonia
Bilirubin
What is the color pigment of bilirubin?
Orange-Yellow Pigment
It is from senescent RBCs.
Bilirubin
It is the metabolism of Bilirubin.
Liver
Where bilirubin excrete?
Bile & urine
1 mole of bilirubin oxidized is equal to?
1 mole of CO2, Bilirubin, Ferric Iron
Volume of bilirubin production?
250-300 mg / day
Where the 85% bilirubin destruction came from?
Spleen, Liver, BM
Where 15% bilirubin came from?
Ineffective erythropoiesis
What are the hemoproteins/ heme containing proteins?
Myoglobin, peroxidases,cytochromes
