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Digestive System 2 (Liver (The liver is like a food-processing factory…
Digestive System 2
Liver
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It regulates blood glucose: after a meal glucose is stored as glycogen. Between meals it is released in the bloodstream (100mg/0.1L)
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Blood from the intestines enters the liver, carrying nutrients, vitamins and minerals, and other products from digestion.
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Gall Bladder
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As food from a meal enters the small intestine, bile flows from the gall bladder along the bile duct into the intestine.
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Large Intestine
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The remains are formed into brown, semi-solid feces, ready to be removed from the body
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rectum and anus
Feces are finally squeezed through a ring of muscle, the anus, and out of the body.
The end of the large intestine and the next part of the tract, the rectum, store the feces.
Final Products
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These molecules pass into epithelial cells and into the bloodstream (capillaries --> veins --> hepatic portal vein --> liver--> general blood circulation).
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Control of secretion
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The sight, smell and taste send impulses to the brain --> brain sends impulses to the stomach and pancreas in order to initiate secretion.
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