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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

Frevert U, Engelmann S, Zougbédé S, Stange J, Ng B, Matuschewski K, Liebes L & Yee H. (2005). Intravital observation of Plasmodium berghei sporozoite infection of the liver. PLoS Biol. , 3, e192. PMID: 15901208 DOI.

Copyright

© 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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