D3 Functions of the Liver

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Across
  1. 3. Vitamin D
  2. 5. Transports Oxygen Rich Blood to the Liver from the Heart
  3. 6. Transports Nutrient Rich Blood from the stomach and Intestines to the Liver
  4. 9. Liver Cells
  5. 11. The small blood vessels in the liver from the hepatic portal vein
  6. 12. Vitamin A
  7. 13. Protein responsible for transporting any bilirubin produced outside of the liver
  8. 14. A protein essential for clotting
  9. 17. Protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen; Broken down in the kupffer cell into a globin chains and a heme group
  10. 18. A symptom that results in the yellowing of skin and eyes due to the excess concentration of bilirubin, which can be caused by other diseases.
  11. 19. a hormone that stimulates liver cells to take up glucose and store it as glycogen
  12. 21. Broken down into amino acids, which are recycled
  13. 22. Composed of soluble bilirubin, water, electrolytes, bicarbonate, cholesterol, phospholipids and salts
Down
  1. 1. The thin passage that transports bile to the gall bladder
  2. 2. Made by liver cells; Needed to make Vitamin d and steroid hormones.
  3. 4. Macrophages that line the sinusoids in the liver; Engulfs red blood cells that swell due to age
  4. 6. Transports blood from the liver to the heart after detoxication
  5. 7. The small blood vessels in the liver from the hepatic artery
  6. 8. White Blood Cells that engulf damaged, dead, and foreign cells in the blood stream
  7. 10. Red Blood Cell
  8. 15. Yellow pigment in bile
  9. 16. a hormone that will break down glycogen, glycerol, amino acids and fatty acids in the liver, therefore releasing glucose to the blood stream
  10. 17. Broken down into iron and bilirubin
  11. 20. Recycles old red blood cells