This book describes Liver Cell, Functions, Diseases, Diagnosis and Treatment and Related Diseases

My liver is the largest solid organ in my body

It cleans my blood of all the toddy

My liver helps me by taking toxins out of the blood.

And detoxifies them from the food mud

It processes the good stuff that my body ingests

Into forms that the rest of the body will digest

It stores energy in the form of a sugar

Called glycogen kept like a treasure

My liver also breaks down protein

Into amino acids from meat and beans

Fats are digested by the hepatic bile

And sent to the intestine in a while

The liver also produces the cholesterol

Which become the male and female hormones all

But do not put the liver to the test

Avoid harmful stuff, poisons and the rest.

Waste or stuff that the body does not need

Will be removed by the feces at great speed

The liver helps with blood clotting

Factors which help you stop bleeding

A toast to my liver not with alcohol

But with pure water that is a cure-all

To the one that has kept me alive

You have helped me to survive

-An original poem by Kenneth Kee

The liver is a reddish brown organ with four lobes of uneven size and shape.

A human liver normally has the weight of 1.44–1.66kg (3.2–3.7lb).

It is a soft, pinkish-brown triangular shaped organ.

It is both the largest internal organ (the skin being the largest organ overall) and the largest gland inside the human body.

It is sited in the right upper quadrant of the abdominal cavity just under the diaphragm.

The liver is sited to the right of the stomach with the gallbladder situated under it.

It is joined to two large blood vessels, one called the hepatic artery and one called the portal vein.

The hepatic artery brings blood from the aorta.

The portal vein brings blood consisting digested nutrients from the whole gastrointestinal tract and also from the spleen and pancreas.

Life and Death of a Liver Cell

My name is Liver Man the liver Cell.

I was named Liver Man by my friends who feel that the Liver is an important and the largest internal organ of the human body.

The liver bud undergoes a period of accelerated growth as it is vascularized and taken over by hematopoietic cells to become the major fetal hematopoietic organ.

We liver cells slowly mature and continue until after birth to generate the characteristic tissue architecture of the liver.

Liver development occurs through a progressive series of tissue interactions between the embryonic endoderm and nearby mesoderm.

We are the most numerous cells of the liver, represent 70% of the volume and 60% in number.

Our shape is multifaceted, with a number of areas ranging from six to twelve.

We are often multinucleated and tetraploid, with the number of cores that can be up to four, a large nucleolus, rough and smooth endoplasmic reticulum well developed, numerous cisternae of Golgi, ribosomes, lysosomes, mitochondria, peroxisomes.

Our nuclei are round with dispersed chromatin and prominent nucleoli.

Within the adult liver the IntraHepatic Bile Duct, portal vein and hepatic artery run in parallel and are referred to as the portal triad

We liver cells surround the portal triad.

We are organized in single cell sheets known as hepatic plates separated by sinusoid spaces that are connected to a network of blood vessels capillaries.

We liver cells are responsible for up to 500 separate functions, usually in combination with other systems and organs.

We liver cells are in the only internal human organ capable of natural regeneration of lost tissue.

25% of a liver can regenerate into a whole liver.

After a life span of 5 months, we liver cells die as a result of apoptosis.

TABLE OF CONTENT

Introduction

Chapter 1 Liver Cell

Chapter 2 Functions

Chapter 3 Life Cycle

Chapter 4 Diseases

Chapter 5 Liver Cirrhosis

Chapter 6 Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver

Chapter 7 Cancer of Liver

Chapter 8 Life and Death Hepatic Cell

Epilogue