HEPATOCYTE

LIVER CELL

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HEPATOCYTE

SPECIALIZED ORGANELLES
Lysosomes
Help to digest toxic including drugs,
alcohol and microorganisms

Mitochondria
Give energy to hepatocyte to take
progress

FUNCTION

Detox toxic from blood

Create bile and send to small intestine
Kupffer cell destroy bacteria in blood
Albumine protein created
Create cholesterol and send into blood vessel.

FUNCTION (2)

Change glucose to glycogen and store it.

Regulate glucose and amino acid.
Store iron from hemoglobin degenerate
Change ammonia to urea
Create substance that make blood clot.

DISEASE
Cirrhosis
Effected by when you get a wound
in the cell and be in the long time.
Until it cant function anymore so it
called Cirrhosis.

Hepatitis
It is a inflammation of hepatocyte.
It occurs by virus. It can transfer by
mucus and mostly of patient can
be cured.

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

REFERENCES
David King (20 December 2011). Specialized cells of the GI
system. Histology SIU SOM, Retrieved from http
://www.siumed.edu/~dking2/erg/gicells.htm
R. Bowen (23 June 1998). Hepatic Histology: Hepatocytes.
Retrieved from
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/liv
er/
histo_hcytes.html

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