liver cell

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liver
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈlɪv.ər/us
/ˈlɪv.ɚ/
a large organ in the body that cleans the blood and produces bile, or this organ from an animal used ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk
/sel/us
/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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Specifically, the body burns fat after first exhausting the contents of the digestive tract along with glycogen reserves stored in muscle and liver cells.
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While muscle cells generally break down glycogen to power their immediate activity, liver cells are responsible for maintaining glucose concentration in the bloodstream.
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Sialyl lewis x is an inflammation-associated antigen on liver cells.
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Artificial heart valves and working tracheas, as well as muscle, fat, bone, heart, neural and liver cells have all been engineered using amniotic stem cells.
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However, if the liver is damaged, thelivercell(hepatocyte) membrane becomes more permeable and some of the enzymes leak out into the blood circulation.
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The parasite escapes from the liver undetected by wrapping itself in the cell membrane of the infected hostlivercell.
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Current areas of research include viral hepatitis, liver cancer, liver inflammation and metabolism,livercellinjury and metabonomic and proteomic studies.
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On the regular trichrome stain, thelivercellcytoplasm shows a foamy appearance due to the prominence of fat.
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After acute exposure, severe liver damage is noticeable by a disruption oflivercellstructure.
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Thelivercellplates may be compressed.
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It is thought that these transporters might favour the elimination of potentially toxic substances from liver cells.
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During chronic hepatic injury, different types of liver cells acquire a neuroendocrine phenotype.
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The biopsy will often show that four or five liver cells are combined into a large cell that still functions, but not as well as a normallivercell.
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Moreover, liposomal lipids may be utilized by liver cells in the process of regeneration.
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And if one in a million liver cells is a spleen cell, we would have a very hard time finding it.
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Heparin inhibits inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate induced calcium release from permeabilised rat liver cells.
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Heparin inhibits inositol triphosphate-induced calcium release from permeabilized rat liver cells.
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Heparin inhibits inositol trisphosphate-induced calcium release from permeabilized rat liver cells.
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The use of botanicals can offer tissue support, the prevention of necrosis of liver cells, provide alternative pathways of metabolism to circumvent inflammation and boost the immune system.
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Fat and liver cells can synthesize and store triglycerides.
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As the liver appears to be the main site of this process, downstream liver cells suffer ischemia, leading to periportal necrosis.
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Bile is formed in the liver by hepatocytes (liver cells) and excreted into the common hepatic duct.
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Bile formation begins in bile canaliculi that form between two adjacent surfaces of liver cells (hepatocytes) similar to the terminal branches of a tree.
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