Liver - Adverse Effects
Fluorinated and Fluoride Pesticides

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A LITTLE BACKGROUND

• The liver is one of the most important organs in the human body. Our largest organ, it is centrally located in the abdomen.
• The liver is intimately involved in almost every part of the body's processes. It has four particularly crucial functions:
1) Fuel Management. The liver is vital to the management of the three major fuels used by the body: carbohydrate, fat, and protein.
2) Nitrogen Excretion. The liver is the only organ capable of removing nitrogen from the body. Nitrogen is a basic component of proteins, the basic building blocks for most of the body's substances. As a result, the regulation, synthesis, and breakdown of protein - and thus life and health - is wholly dependent on liver function.
3) Water balance. The liver creates many of the components of blood - including those that control the distribution of water between the blood, cells, and tissues.
4) Detoxification. The body is constantly subjected to a variety of dangerous substances, both natural toxins (like alcohol, metals, and so forth) and man-made toxins (like chemicals, pollutants, and pharmaceutical agents). The liver has the unique ability to alter or break down these toxins, protecting the rest of the body.
Ref: http://www.epidemic.org/theFacts/essentials/yourLiver.html

Notes:
Hepatocyte - a liver cell

Hypertrophy - The enlargement or overgrowth of an organ or part due to an increase in size of its constituent cells, rather than the number of cells. Compare to hyperplasia.

Hyperplasia - Enlargement of an organ or tissue because of an increase in the number of cells in that organ or tissue. Compare to hypertrophy.

Liver enzymes - aspartate aminotransferase, alanine amino-transferase, alkaline phosphatase

Alkaline phosphatase - Synonyms: serum alkaline phosphatase (SAP). An enzyme produced in liver and bone. Levels may be elevated in patients with liver and/or bone cancer or prostate cancer that has metastasized to the liver and/or bone as well as non-malignant conditions.. http://www.phoenix5.org/glossary/alkaline_phosphatase.html

Types of primary liver cancer In adults, most primary liver cancers belong to one of two types: hepatomas, or hepatocellular carcinomas, which start in the liver tissue itself; and cholangiomas, or cholangiocarcinomas, which are cancers that develop in the bile ducts inside the liver. About 90% of primary liver cancers are hepatomas. In the United States, about five persons in every 200,000 will develop a hepatoma; in Africa and Asia, over 40 persons in 200,000 will develop this form of cancer. Two rare types of primary liver cancer are mixed-cell tumors and Kupffer cell sarcomas. There is one type of primary liver cancer that usually occurs in children younger than four years of age and between the ages of 12-15. This type of childhood liver cancer is called a hepatoblastoma. Unlike liver cancers in adults, hepatoblastomas have a good chance of being treated successfully. Approximately 70% of children with hepatoblastomas experience complete cures. If the tumor is detected early, the survival rate is over 90%.
Risk factors for primary liver cancer
The exact cause of primary liver cancer is still unknown. In adults, however, certain factors are known to place some individuals at higher risk of developing liver cancer. These factors include: Male sex. The male/female ratio for hepatoma is 4:1.
Ref: http://www.chclibrary.org/micromed/00054950.html


 

 
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