Book
Hepatocytes and Their Role in Metabolism
| العنوان: | Hepatocytes and Their Role in Metabolism |
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| المؤلفون: | Dutta, Shweta, Mishra, Saraswati Prasad, Sahu, Anil Kumar, Mishra, Koushlesh, Kashyap, Pankaj, Sahu, Bhavna |
| المصدر: | https://www.intechopen.com/books/10357. |
| بيانات النشر: | IntechOpen |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | IntechOpen (E-Books) |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Drug Metabolism |
| الوصف: | Liver is one of the vital organ that performs many functions in the human body. Prominently it acts as a metabolizing organ for the body. This chapter elaborately describes hepatocytes along with their morphological features. In addition, it explains the structure of hepatocytes and different parts such as kupffer cells, hepatic stellate and hepatic sinusoids. Moreover present chapter elaborates the varieties of functions that hepatocytes perform such as filtration of blood, acting as a viral incubator, lipophagy and regulation of insulin and glucose. This chapter also explains hepatic injury that is caused by chronic consumption of alcohol along with the mechanism behind it. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | book part |
| اللغة: | English |
| ردمك: | 978-1-83968-879-9 1-83968-879-3 |
| Relation: | https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/hepatocytes-and-their-role-in-metabolism |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.99083 |
| الاتاحة: | https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/hepatocytes-and-their-role-in-metabolism https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.99083 |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.963A8D98 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| ردمك: | 9781839688799 1839688793 |
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| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.99083 |