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Diseases of the Liver and Gallbladder
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2024
Liver and gallbladder diseases are a significant health concern, with prominent conditions including cirrhosis, hepatitis, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), and gallstones. Jaundice is a common manifestation of liver and biliary disease. Cirrhosis is characterized by the scarring of hepatic lobules in the liver, which are replaced by fibrous tissue, affecting the liver's normal functioning. NAFLD, on the other hand, is caused by an excessive build-up of fat in the liver, not related to...
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Gallbladder
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2024
The gallbladder is a small, pear-shaped organ that plays a crucial role in our digestive system. Measuring about 10 cm in length, it is comparable in size to a kiwi fruit and is located in a hollow area on the lower surface of the liver. The gallbladder's primary function is to store and concentrate bile, a fluid produced by the liver that aids in digestion. The gallbladder's anatomy consists of three regions: the fundus, body, and neck. Extending from the neck, the cystic duct joins the common...
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In vivo Liver Endocytosis Followed by Purification of Liver Cells by Liver Perfusion
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2011
The study of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (SECs) must be performed with primary cells obtained from the animal as no cell lines exist. This method relies on liver digestion and differential centrifugation for SEC purification for subsequent culturing and experimentation.
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Liver Cold Storage and Transplantation in the Cold-Adaptive Daurian Ground Squirrels
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2025
Here, we present a protocol to establish a long-term liver cold storage and transplantation model in Daurian ground squirrel (DGS), which has been technically challenging in standard rodent models.
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The Murine Choline-Deficient, Ethionine-Supplemented (CDE) Diet Model of Chronic Liver Injury
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2017
Here we describe a common method to induce chronic liver injury in mice by feeding of a choline-deficient and ethionine-supplemented (CDE) diet. We demonstrate health monitoring, liver perfusion, isolation, and preservation. A time course of six weeks can inform about liver injury, pathohistology, fibrosis, inflammatory, and liver progenitor cell responses.
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Bile salts emulsify dietary lipids, breaking large fat masses into smaller droplets. This increases the accessible surface area for digestive enzymes, allowing those enzymes to act more effectively during lipid breakdown. The process does not digest fat by itself; instead, it supports enzyme activity in the small intestine and helps explain why bile is important for normal fat digestion.
The gallbladder releases bile in response to a meal rather than producing it continuously. The liver supplies bile continuously, while the gallbladder stores and concentrates it until digestive activity requires delivery to the small intestine. This division allows bile to be available in a concentrated form when dietary lipids need to be processed.
The liver contributes to digestion while also regulating metabolism, producing proteins, storing nutrients, supporting detoxification, and participating in waste excretion. These roles show that its importance extends beyond bile production. In biology, examining them together demonstrates how one organ can connect nutrient handling, chemical processing, storage, and removal of waste.
The liver is responsible for continuously producing bile, whereas the gallbladder stores and concentrates that bile before release. Their functions are therefore complementary rather than interchangeable. Studying the pair clarifies how production, storage, concentration, and delivery can be distributed between organs to support the digestion of fats.
Studying liver and gallbladder function connects the handling of dietary fats with broader metabolic regulation. It can show how bile production and release support digestion while the liver also manages nutrient processing, storage, protein production, detoxification, and waste excretion. This makes the organ system useful for understanding interactions between digestion and metabolism in biology.
Gallstones, hepatitis, and impaired bile flow provide clinically relevant contexts for examining how liver and gallbladder function can be disrupted. These conditions direct attention to bile production, storage, release, and the liver’s wider activities. Studying them helps relate normal digestive and metabolic processes to disease-associated changes without treating the organs as isolated parts of the body.