Anatomy and Cell Biology 3309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Common Hepatic Duct, Common Bile Duct, Bile Canaliculus

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Lecture 8 Gallbladder, Exocrine Pancreas
- Liver produces bile and it is delivered into the duodenum with enzymes that are produced
by the pancreas
- Pancreas is a mixed organ endocrine and exocrine portion
o Produces digestive enzymes and a bicarbonate rich fluid to provide buffering so
enzymatic digestion within duodenum happens at an appropriate pH
- Gallbladder: outgrowth/extension of the bile duct which is divided into two parts
o From the liver, bile is collected in the common hepatic duct and it flows towards the
duodenum and name changes
o There is a diversion where bile is sent to the gall bladder through the cystic duct
- Gall bladder stores and concentrates bile
o Bile is delivered through the cystic duct to the common hepatic duct which changes
it name to the common bile duct
o Bile reaches the duodenum at the hepatopancreatic duct/ampulla (of Vater)
o Duct merges with the main pancreatic duct that delivers digestive enzymes into the
duodenum as well
- Both bile and digestive enzymes will be delivered in the same location
- Bile flows from hepatocytes (individual bile producing cells) and goes through bile
canaliculi (spaces that represent the apical end of the hepatocytes)
o They are not lined by their own set of cells
o It is just the basal end formed by the basal side of the hepatocytes
- Towards the periphery of the lobule, some of the cells surrounding bile canaliculi
differentiate into duct cells
o Channels are called bile ductules and they collect the bile towards the periphery and
into the bile duct which is part of the portal triad (with portal venule and hepatic
arteriole)
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- Bile is collected from the liver and into larger structures (right and left hepatic duct)
- Don’t need to know the ducts
- Know the location of the gallbaddler being part of the bile duct passage ways
Gall bladder
- Stores and concentrates bile between meals
- Epithelium is simple columnar (very prominent) and sits over a highly vascularized lamina
propria of loose CT
- Find many capillaries underneath the epithelium
- Epithelium is on the mucosa (lamina propria + epithelium)
- In the gallbladder, the mucosa forms branching folds sticking into the lumen
o THEY ARE FOLDS AND NOT FINGER-LIKE PROJECTIONS
- What is a histological indication that they are folds and not finger like projections cut in
longitudinal section?
o Can always see a connection with the lamina propria
o Do not see islands if they were finger like projections, they would be cut across
o There are no islands floating around
- Underneath the mucosa there is a smooth muscle coat that blends into the submucosa
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- Smooth muscle is important for delivering the bile back out into the common bile duct after
it has been stored and concentrated
- Electron micrograph of epithelial cells (low mag)
- Left image: inactive gallbladder
- Right image: active gallbladder
o There are spaces appearing in between adjacent cells due to the fact that gallbladder
epithelium has many microvilli (not as tall as those found in enterocyte)
o Cells pump sodium out of the lumen of the gallbladder and down towards the
interstitial space
o There are many sodium pumps that actively pump sodium
o Increase in the concentration of sodium between cells and underneath the cells in
the connective tissue results in the passive flow of water to equilibrate the
osmolarity of the high sodium concentration
o Water is removed out of the lumen of the gallbladder and bile is concentrated
o Bile salts remain in the gallbladder and just the water is removed by the sodium
pumping
o There are capillaries underneath the epithelium that take water to bloodstream and
remove the water
- Anytime water needs to move water from one place to another, sodium pumping is a
common mechanism
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Liver produces bile and it is delivered into the duodenum with enzymes that are produced by the pancreas. Pancreas is a mixed organ endocrine and exocrine portion: produces digestive enzymes and a bicarbonate rich fluid to provide buffering so enzymatic digestion within duodenum happens at an appropriate ph. Both bile and digestive enzymes will be delivered in the same location. Bile flows from hepatocytes (individual bile producing cells) and goes through bile canaliculi (spaces that represent the apical end of the hepatocytes: they are not lined by their own set of cells. It is just the basal end formed by the basal side of the hepatocytes. Bile is collected from the liver and into larger structures (right and left hepatic duct) Know the location of the gallbaddler being part of the bile duct passage ways. Epithelium is simple columnar (very prominent) and sits over a highly vascularized lamina propria of loose ct.

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