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LIVER FAMILIES: An online support group for families whose lives have been touched by pediatric liver disease and transplant.
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Liver transplantation is an option for those with irreversible liver failure. Most transplants are done for chronic liver diseases leading to cirrhosis, such as chronic hepatitis C, alcoholism, autoimmune hepatitis, and many others.
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Liverworts have a thin, leathery body that grows flat on moist soil or, in some cases, the surface of still water.
Mosses have an erect shoot bearing tiny leaflike structures arranged in spirals.
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liver :the organ that helps to process the products of human digestion and removes excess glucose from the bloodstream, converting it to a polymer called glycogen for storage.
loop of Henle: the segment of the human kidney after the proximal tubule.
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Jaundice occurs when the characteristic yellow tint to the skin is caused by excess hemoglobin breakdown products in the blood, a sign that the liver is not properly functioning.
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liverwort A group of the division Bryophyta charcterized by a small, inconspicuous, liver-shaped thallus and that lives in moist environments.
loam A mixture of sand-, silt-, and clay-sized soil particles.
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liver diverticulum Endodermal rudiment of the liver and associated glands and ducts.
lumen A term used when referring to the cavity or passageway within a tubular structure (ex. the interior space of a seminiferous tubule).
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liverworts
Belong to the class Bryophyta and are found in damp and wet conditions.
lobule
One of several lobes or divisions of the liver.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - 1902
William Rufus Day - 1903
William Henry Moody - 1906
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A liver-derived cell extract used in the Ames test to activate or inactivate chemicals in a test for mutagens and potential carcinogens.
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The mosses, liverworts, and hornworts; a group of nonvascular plants that inhabit the land but lack many of the terrestrial adaptations of vascular plants.
bronchus pl. bronchi
(bronk-us, bronk- eye) [Gk. bronchos, windpipe] ...
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sac near the liver in which bile is stored
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby
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Inoculate to deliver organisms such as bacteria or protists into a growth medium
(ocul = eye)
Instar an insect or a stage in an insect's life in between two molts
(instar = shape form) ...
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A protein produced in the pituitary gland that stimulates the liver to produce somatomedins, which stimulate growth of bone and muscle. Hybrid. The offspring of two parents differing in at least one genetic characteristic (trait).
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hapto- bind to haptoglobin serum protein which binds free hemoglobin for transport to the liver and destruction Haworth perspective formulas A method for representing cyclic chemical structures (sugars) in order to define the configuration around ...
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So if you were to just take an organ like the liver or the brain and take a piece of it and grind it up and extract the sugars, you wouldn't know which sugars came from which cell type because there are multiple cell types in any tissue.
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However, even if a GA does not always deliver a provably perfect solution to a problem, it can almost always deliver at least a very good solution.) All four of a GA's major components - parallelism, selection, mutation, ...
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Receptors for this protein, transferrin receptors (TfR), can appear on liver cell surfaces. Regulation of TfR is important to the regulation of iron uptake and metabolism.
The TfR mRNA is unstable when sufficient iron is present in the cell.
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Animals store extra carbohydrates as glycogen in the liver and muscles. Between meals, the liver breaks down glycogen to glucose in order to keep the blood glucose concentration stable.
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low shrubs, sedges, reindeer mosses, liverworts, and grasses
400 varieties of flowers
crustose and foliose lichen ...
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axon - long nerve cell processes that is capable of rapidly conducting nerve impulses over long distances so as to deliver signals to other cells ...
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Cancer of the developing blood cells in the bone marrow. Leukemia leads to rampant overproduction of white blood cells (leukocytes); symptoms usually include anemia, fever, enlarged liver, spleen, and/or lymph nodes.
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