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Salivary glands
Pancreas
Liver
Gallbladder
Parotid
Submandibular
Sublingual
Xerostomia
What is dry mouth called? What are
4 potential causes?
Serous cells
Mucous cells
Myoepithelial cells
Polarized, protein-secreting, pyramidshaped cells with rounded nuceli, wellstained RER, and apical secretory
granules; joined apically by tight
junctions; form an acinus with a very
small central lumen; secrete enzymes
and other proteins
Sialorrhea
What is excessive saliva production
called? What are potential causes?
Nausea
Inflammation within the oral cavity
Rabies viral infection
Columnar
1. Secretion of bile
2. Synthesis and endocrine secretion into the blood of the major plasma
proteins (albumin, fibrinogen, clotting factors, apolipoproteins, transferrin,
complement system, etc.)
3. Gluconeogenesis
4. Detoxification and conjugation of ingested toxins and drugs
5. Amino acid deamination and urea production
6. Storage of glycogen and triglycerides
7. Storage of Vitamin A (in hepatic stellate cells) and other fat soluble
vitamins (D, E, K)
8. Storage of iron in complexes with ferritin
9. Removal of effete RBCs (by Kupffer cells)
Lymphatics
Nerve fibers
Reversible condition
Large triglyceride-containing lipid droplets
accumulate abnormally in hepatocytes
(steatosis)
Common causes = alcoholism and obesity
Accumulation of fat in hepatocytes may produce
a progressive inflammation of the liver
(steatohepatitis)
Oval cells
Location = present among
cholangiocytes of the bile canals near
portal areas; produce progenitor cells
for both hepatocytes and
cholangiocytes
Simple cuboidal or low columnar epithelium of
cholangiocytes
Lamina propria and submucosa are thin with
mucous glands in some areas of the cystic duct
Thin muscularis becomes thicker near the
duodenum and duodenal papilla and finally forms
the sphincter of Oddi
Cholelithiasis
Cholecystitis