File:Liver structure cartoon.jpg

Liver Structure

This cartoon shows the portal venue to central vein flow within the liver subunit structure.

• Dual blood supply of the liver merges upon entry into the liver lobule at the portal field.

1. branches of the portal vein
2. branches of the hepatic artery

• Blood flows along the sinusoid and exits at the central vein.
• Bile flows in the opposite direction.

Kupffer cells - stellate macrophage cells named after Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829 - 1902) a German anatomist who originally identified these cells.

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Reference

<pubmed>15901208</pubmed>| PLoS Biol

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© 2005 Frevert et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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