What Is Hepatotoxicity?

The liver is an organ with mainly metabolic functions in the body, and plays a role in deoxidation, storage of glycogen, and synthesis of secreted proteins in the body. The liver can also promote the improvement of some toxic substances, and then excrete the body, thereby playing a detoxifying role. Bacteria that are parasitic in the intestine can release ammonia when they decompose.

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The liver is an organ with mainly metabolic functions in the body, and plays a role in deoxidation, storage of glycogen, and synthesis of secreted proteins in the body. The liver can also promote the improvement of some toxic substances, and then excrete the body, thereby playing a detoxifying role. Bacteria that are parasitic in the intestine can release ammonia when they decompose.
Western Medicine Name
Liver toxin
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Internal Medicine-General Medicine
Contagious
Contagious
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Liver toxin
The liver also makes bile in the digestive system. In medical terms, the Latin prefix hepato- or hepatic is often used to describe the liver or liver (Greek hpar ()). Most liver diseases have symptoms of jaundice. This is because the liver cannot continue to excrete bilirubin, so it accumulates in the body. It plays a major role in metabolism and has a number of functions in the body, includingg lycogenstorage, decomposition of red blood cells, plasma protein synthesis, and detoxification. , Decomposes red blood cells, synthesizes and detoxifies plasma proteins.)
The liver is the largest organ in the human body. It is located in the abdomen in the human body, under the right diaphragm, at the front of the gallbladder, in front of the right kidney, and above the stomach.
The liver is the largest digestive gland in the human digestive system. The average weight of an adult liver is 1.5 kg (about 1-2.5 kg; the other is 1-1.6 kg), and it is a red-brown V-shaped organ. The liver is an important organ of metabolism. Substances in the body, including ingested food, undergo important chemical changes in the liver: some substances undergo chemical structural transformation, some substances are processed in the liver, some substances are transformed and excreted from the body, and some substances such as Protein and cholesterol are synthesized in the liver. The liver can be said to be a chemical plant in the human body.
The liver converts ammonia to urea excretion, avoiding poisoning. If you drink alcohol, alcohol produces acetaldehyde in the body, which can combine with the body's substances, produce toxic reactions, and produce symptoms of drunkenness; but the liver can oxidize acetaldehyde to acetic acid to eliminate it. If you drink too much alcohol and exceed the liver's detoxification ability, you will have alcoholism, which is seriously life-threatening. People take medicines. In addition to drugs that can cure diseases, they often have some toxicity. At this time, the liver can transform the drugs into water-soluble substances and exclude them from urine or feces.
The liver is a fragile organ and can cause disease if it is not well protected. After the virus invades the liver, the capillary permeability of the liver increases, the liver cells degenerate and swell, the liver bleeds, and the inflammatory cells infiltrate, leading to liver enlargement and normal function decline. Most liver diseases can be cured, but a few remain unhealed and become chronic hepatitis.

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