NURS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 35: Common Hepatic Duct, Duodenum, Gallbladder
3 Dec 2018
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Between the right and left lobe. Inferior part of the falciform ligament, used to be the fetal umbilical vein. Contains the vessels necessary for liver blood supply (hepatic portal vein, Contains spaces called sinoids common hepatic duct and hepatic artery proper) Consist of capillaries (leading to the central vein) and kupffer cells . Hepatic portal vein, bile duct and hepatic artery proper. 2 blood vessels (hepatic artery proper, hepatic portal vein) Nutrient rich blood from stomach, spleen, and intestines, one of the 3 branches of the celiac trunk . Somatomedins, bile, amino acids, lipids, cholesterol, plasma proteins, clotting factors, inactive hormone angiotensinogen. Glycogen and lipid reserves, iron, fat-soluble vitamins, blood (major contributor of venous reserve) lipid-soluble drugs. Damaged red blood cells (by kupffer cells) Synthesized in the liver, exiting through the hepatic duct. Heme (from hb) breaks off into iron (which is recycled) or biliverdin . Biliverdin becomes bilirubin liver, where is it fat soluble.
