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The salivary glands, the liver, the gallbladder, and the pancreas constitute the accessory organs of the digestive system. These organs have exocrine secretion that chemical breakdown ingested food to facilitate digestion. Furthermore, the liver and pancreas have multiple other functions essential for homeostasis, e.g., the endocrine function of the pancreas that regulates blood glucoses’ level and the detoxification function of the liver.
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Rehfeld, A., Nylander, M., Karnov, K. (2017). The Digestive System II: The Associated Organs. In: Compendium of Histology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41873-5_22
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