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Liver, Bile, & Lipid DIgestion Flashcards

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What suspends the liver between the stomach and anterior abdominal wall? What are the two ligaments?

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Peritoneum - Lesser Omentum & Falciform ligament

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What is the largest gland (by weight) and where is it located?

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Liver, upper right abdomen between ribs 5-10

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Where is the less omentum located and what does it contain?

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Btwn liver & stomach
Contains hepatic blood vessels & bile ducts

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Where is the falciform ligament?

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Btwn liver & anterior abdominal wall

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What covers the liver except the bare area?

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Visceral peritoneum

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Where is the top of the liver attached to and what is it surrounded by?

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Attached to diaphragm
Surrounded by coronal ligament

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What are the lobes of the liver & what are they demarcated by?

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Right, Left, Quadrate, Caudate
blood vessels & ligaments

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What is the ligamentum teres?

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Vestige of an umbilical vein carrying blood from placenta to fetus

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What is the Porta Hepatis and what does it contain?

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Hilum of the liver
Contains bile ducts, hepatic artery, & portal vein

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How much of cardiac output does the liver receive?

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29%

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What are some functions of the liver?

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  1. Macrophages consume colonic bacteria
  2. Metabolizes the 3 major components of food: carb, lipid, prot
  3. Stores vitamin & iron
  4. Detoxifies drugs, hormones, etc
  5. Secretes bile

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What does the liver do with carbs?

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Stores glucose by forming glycogen/secretes glucose into circulation through gluconeogenesis

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What does the liver do with lipids?

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synthesizes lipoproteins, cholesterol, & phospholipids
oxidizes FA
converts carbs & prot into fat

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What does the liver do with proteins?

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Synthesizes plasma proteins
Forms urea

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Where does the hepatic artery bring blood from?

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Oxygenated blood from the aorta via the celiac artery

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What does the portal vein bring?

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Nutrient filled deoxygenated blood from the gastric, splenic, & mesenteric veins

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What are the sinusoids lined with? What do they do?

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hepatocytes, detoxify, metabolize, store iron & vitamins

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What does the hepatic vein bring blood from?

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Out of the superior aspect of the liver into the Inferior Vena Cava

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What is the classic lobule?

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Hexagonal arrangement of hepatocytes

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What do the portal areas (triads) at each corner contain?

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Hepatic artery, portal vein, and bile canaliculus

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Where does the central vein lie?

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In the middle of the classic lobule

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What is the more functional unit of the liver?

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Liver Acinus

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What does the hepatocyte efficiency depend on?

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Proximity to blood supply

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Of the three concentric zones incorporating portions of adjacent lobules, what does zone 1 & 3 receive?

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1 - highest concentration of oxygen & nutrients

3 - least oxygen & nutrients, but is primary site of alcohol & drug detox (susceptible to hypoxia & toxic damage)

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Where does plasma flow from?
Sinuosoids into space of Disse
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Where is the space of Disse located?
Btwn hepatocytes & endothelium of sinusoids
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Where is lymph sent to via channels?
Inferior vena cava or thoracic duct
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What is portal hypertension?
Back pressure of blood into portal circulation due to flow obstruction
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What are ascites?
Portal hypertension increases lymph flow into space of Disse, excess lymph seeps through the visceral layer of peritoneum & creates fluid build-up in the peritoneal cavity, drop in blood volume stimulates renal salt & water retention until blood volume is restored
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Where does hepatocytes secrete bile through?
Canaliculi towards the bile ducts
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What are the constituents of bile?
Bile acids, Phospholipids, Cholesterol Bicarb (bile ducts via secretion, hepatocytes) Bile pigments (bilirubin)
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What are the biliary ducts?
R & L hepatic ducts, common hepatic duct, cystic duct, common bile duct, hepatopancreatic ampulla, main pancreatic duct, major duodenal papilla
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What does the R & L hepatic duct do?
Bile outflow from liver
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What does the common hepatic duct?
Junction of R & L hepatic ducts
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What does the cystic duct do?
Outflow from gall bladder
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What does the common bile duct do?
Outflow of bile from gall bladder & liver
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What does the hepatopancreatic ampulla do?
Junction of bile & pancreatic ducts
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What does the main pancreatic duct do?
outflow from pancreas
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What does the major duodenal papilla do?
bile & pancreatic secretion into duodenum
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What are the parts of the gall bladder?
body, neck, & fundus
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How is bile stored?
Choledochal sphincter (of Oddi) creates backflow to fill gall bladder
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How is bile concentrated?
mucosa absorbs water
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How is bile released back into the duodenum?
CCK (released in response to fats) contracts GB wall, vagus nerve increases bile flow & contracts gall bladder
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What does CCK promotes?
gall bladder emptying, pancreatic secretion, gastric slowing, intestinal peristalsis
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What does secretin promote?
bicarb secretion from bile ducts, pancreatic ducts, brunner's gland
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What are gall stone precipitates of cholesterol due to?
Excess absorption of water, excess absorption of bile salts & lecithin, excess secretion of cholesterol, inflammation of epithelium, and stasis of the gall bladder smooth muscle later
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What is bile necessary for?
digestion & absorption of lipids, elimination of endogenous products & exogenous substances
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What is the sequence of fat digestion?
Lipases hydrolyze TG into FFA, digested fats transported to enterocytes via biliary micelles, FFA reconverted to TGs, converted to chylomicrons, transport to blood
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What does bile emulsify fat into?
1 um soluble droplets
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What does pancreatic lipases do?
Hydrolyze TGs to glycerides & FAs
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What does Phospholipase A2 do?
hydrolyzes phospholipids
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What does cholesterol esterase do?
hydrolyzes cholesterol
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What is the structure of a micelle?
bile acids, phospholipids & cholesterol form lipophilic center that emulsifies fats into a form digestible by lipases
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What do micelles do?
transport & facilitate absorption of glycerides & FAs through mucosa
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Long chain FAs can pass through aqueous layer to reach what?
enterocyte membrane
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Where do FAs, glycerides, & cholesterol go?
FA & glycerides - re-synthesized into TGs | Cholest - absorbed & processed in free form
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What is enterohepatic circulation?
bile acids & salts are recycled back to the liver, most reabsorption is active transport in the ileum (less passive transport from rest of intestine), bile acids & salts are returned to the liver & reconjugated to tuarine & glycine.
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What are the four types of lipoproteins?
chylomicrons, VLDL, LDL, HDL
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Where are the lipoproteins produced?
Chylo - SI, VLDL - liver, LDL/HDL - plasma
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What do the lipoproteins do?
Chylo - transport fat into blood, VLDL - transport TG from liver to organs, LDL - transport cholest. ester from liver to organs, HDL - transport cholest. from tissues to liver
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What is bilirubin derived from?
hemoglobin (converted by colonic bacteria)

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