2. What role does the liver play?
The liver is an organ essential to the body's functioning. It performs many vital functions.
2.1 The liver filters blood
It eliminates waste.
It destroys aged red blood cells and transforms hemoglobin into bilirubin, which is eliminated in the bile after binding to albumin.
It filters and eliminates infectious agents that cross the intestinal barrier,
2.2 The liver transforms (metabolizes) xenobiotics...
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Bibliography
B. Mégarbane, N. Deye, F. Baud: Foie toxique: lésionnels et thérapeutiques, pharmacologiques spécifiques, Réanimation 16, 632-642 (2007).
Lombard et al (2024), part 2 pp. 153-281, Évaluation technico-économique des produits au stade initial du développement, ISTE éditions, Ltd London.
Acronyms/abbreviations
ASAT: ASpartate-AminoTransferase (ASAT)
ALAT: ALanine amino transferase
GGT: Gamma-GlutamylTransferase
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