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Liver
(Science: anatomy) a solid organ located in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen. The liver plays a major role in metabolism, digestion, detoxification and elimination of substances from the body.
Liver
The Liver as an Excretory Organ
Children's Liver Association for Support Services, C.L.A.S.S. A large non-profit organization.
Liver diverticulum
Endodermal rudiment of the liver and associated glands and ducts.
The Liver
(Hepar)
The liver, the largest gland in the body, has both external and internal secretions, which are formed in the hepatic cells.
Liverworts have a thin, leathery body that grows flat on moist soil or, in some cases, the surface of still water.
Mosses have an erect shoot bearing tiny leaflike structures arranged in spirals.
MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS
These are the little ones. The most important feature of mosses and liverworts is that they have no vascular system. A vascular system in plants is a series of tubes that can transport water and nutrients over a distance.
liverworts
Belong to the class Bryophyta and are found in damp and wet conditions.
lobule
One of several lobes or divisions of the liver.
The Liver and Gall Bladder
The liver produces and sends bile to the small intestine via the hepatic duct, as illustrated in Figure 8. Bile contains bile salts, which emulsify fats, making them susceptible to enzymatic breakdown.
Liver enzymes affected by insulin
Enzyme dephosphorylation by insulin action
PFK-1 regulation in liver
Insulin regulation of glucokinase
Enzyme phosphorylation induced by glucagon
Epinephrine action to mobilize glycogen ...
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Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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liverwort A group of the division Bryophyta charcterized by a small, inconspicuous, liver-shaped thallus and that lives in moist environments.
loam A mixture of sand-, silt-, and clay-sized soil particles.
A liver-derived cell extract used in the Ames test to activate or inactivate chemicals in a test for mutagens and potential carcinogens.
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mosses, liverworts, hornworts
Psilophyta
naked photosynthetic stems, no leaves, free-sporing ...
[Gk. hepatikos, liver]
Pertaining to the liver.
hepatic portal vessel
A large circulatory channel that conveys nutrient-laden blood from the small intestine to the liver, which regulates the blood's nutrient content.
Inoculate to deliver organisms such as bacteria or protists into a growth medium
(ocul = eye)
Instar an insect or a stage in an insect's life in between two molts
(instar = shape‚ form) ...
A protein produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the liver to produce somatomedins, which stimulate growth of bone and muscle. Hybrid. The offspring of two parents differing in at least one genetic characteristic (trait).
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There are stem cells in the liver that give rise to hepatocytes and secretory cells. There are stem cells in neural tissue that give rise to neurons and astroglial cells and things like that. And muscle has stem cells.
Glycogen is a polysaccharide we store in our liver. It has both linear and branched regions but it is composed entirely of glucose, a simple monosaccharide. Starch in the potatoes we eat is composed exclusively of glucose, also.
So if you were to just take an organ like the liver or the brain and take a piece of it and grind it up and extract the sugars, you wouldn't know which sugars came from which cell type because there are multiple cell types in any tissue.
However, even if a GA does not always deliver a provably perfect solution to a problem, it can almost always deliver at least a very good solution.) All four of a GA's major components - parallelism, selection, mutation, ...
The regulation of this enzyme complex is necessarily complicated by the diverse receptor types that are needed to trigger its activation and also the tight control that is required to deliver this activation at the appropriate time and place.
The liver cells, where mitochondria have an average lifetime of only about 10 days, are a good example of this function. Microscopic examination of liver cells reveals the constant presence of lysosomes containing mitochondria.
Inserted into the plasmids (one per plasmid) are thousands of different pieces of cDNA (each typ. 500-5000 bp) copied from some source of mRNA, for example, total liver mRNA.
Entamoeba histolytica, another water-borne pathogen, can cause diarrhea or a more serious invasive liver abscess. When in contact with human cells, these amebae are cytotoxic.
Animals store extra carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver and muscles. Between meals, the liver breaks down glycogen to glucose in order to keep the concentration of glucoses in the blood stable.
Cori disease A disease in which the structure of liver and muscle glycogen is abnormal and the amount is increased; it is due to an inability to hydrolyze the α-1,6-glycosidic bonds in glycogen; liver function is compromised.
thalloid -- Plants which have no roots, stems, or leaves are called thalloid, such as liverworts and hornworts.
tracheophyte -- Any member of the clade of plants possessing vascular tissue; a vascular plant.
As the chyme enters your small intestine it is mixed with a variety of chemicals, whose job it is to further break down the hotdog. Your liver adds a liquid known as bile which helps to neutralize the acids from your stomach, ...
- Primary alcohols found in plant matter which play a role in the reduction of cholesterol and in stimulating apoptosis. Monoterpenes also increase the levels of liver enzymes involved in detoxifying carcinogens.
fungi - all non-chlorophyll-bearing thallophytes (i.e., all non-chlorophyll-bearing plants of a lower order than mosses and liverworts) that often show mycelial, spreading growth, e.g., rusts, mildews, molds and yeasts (Glossary of PM) ...
Human growth hormone (HGH, somatotrophin). A protein produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the liver to produce somatomedins, which stimulate growth of bone and muscle.
axon - long nerve cell processes that is capable of rapidly conducting nerve impulses over long distances so as to deliver signals to other cells ...
Cancer of the developing blood cells in the bone marrow. Leukemia leads to rampant overproduction of white blood cells (leukocytes); symptoms usually include anaemia, fever, enlarged liver, spleen, and/or lymph nodes. [Talking Glossary]
Lysosome ...
Organ A group of tissues that perform a particular job. Animals have more than a dozen organs, including the heart, brain, eye, liver, and lung.
In vertebrates, this innermost layer of cells goes on to form the linings of the gut (esophagus, stomach, intestines, rectum, colon), pharyngeal pouch derivatives (tonsils,thyroid, thymus, parathyroid glands), lungs, liver, gall bladder, pancreas.
 See also: Human, Trans, Cells, Organ, Protein
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