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Liver and Spleen Function

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Liver is the largest organ and carries out the most complex biologic functions in the body. It secretes bile, synthesizes proteins, metabolizes nutrients, hormones, and drugs and detoxifies noxious endogenous and exogenous substrates. To accomplish all of these functions, the liver is located centrally in the body with well designed architecture and is supplied with a generous amount of blood. Secretion of bile is one of many important liver functions. Bile promotes digestion and absorption of essential nutrients and also serves as a vehicle to get rid off biologic waste products from the body. The biliary tree is designed not only for continuous bile secretion but also for periodic bile storage and discharge at the time when food enters the small intestine. Spleen carries out many functions whose importance has been recognized only recently. This chapter will discuss various functions of these two organs.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tuality Community Hospital, Tuality Healthcare, Hillsboro, Oregon, USA

    Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy MBBS, MS, FACP, FACNP (Formerly, Chief, Program Director, Professor of Radiology, Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Medicine) & Shakuntala Krishnamurthy BSc, MBBS (Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology)

  2. Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy MBBS, MS, FACP, FACNP (Formerly, Chief, Program Director, Professor of Radiology, Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Medicine)

  3. Nuclear Medicine Residency, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy MBBS, MS, FACP, FACNP (Formerly, Chief, Program Director, Professor of Radiology, Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Medicine)

  4. Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon, USA

    Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy MBBS, MS, FACP, FACNP (Formerly, Chief, Program Director, Professor of Radiology, Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Medicine) & Shakuntala Krishnamurthy BSc, MBBS (Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiology)

  5. University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA

    Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy MBBS, MS, FACP, FACNP (Formerly, Chief, Program Director, Professor of Radiology, Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Medicine)

  6. University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Gerbail T. Krishnamurthy MBBS, MS, FACP, FACNP (Formerly, Chief, Program Director, Professor of Radiology, Pathology, and Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Radiology, Associate Professor of Medicine)

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Krishnamurthy, G.T., Krishnamurthy, S. (2000). Liver and Spleen Function. In: Nuclear Hepatology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22654-4_2

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