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What are the metabolic wastes of haemoglobin of red blood cells in liver?

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Liver performs a variety of functions such as synthesis, storage and secretion of various substances.
1. Liver secretes bile juice, it contains bile salts such as sodium / potassium glycocholates and taurocholates, which helps in digestion and absorption of lipids.
2. Liver plays the key role in carbohydrate metabolism.
a) Glycogenesis : formation of glycogen from glucose.
b) Glycogenolysis : breakdown of glycogen into glucose.
c) Gluconeogenesis : Synthesis of glucose from certain amino acids, lactate (or) glycerol.

3. Liver also plays an important role in synthesis of cholesterol and production of triglycerides.
4. Deamination of proteins occurs in the liver.
5. Liver is the chief organ of detoxification of toxic substances that enter the gut along with food.
6. Liver acts as thermoregulatory organ.
7. Liver acts as a haemopoietic organ in the foetus and erythroclastic organ in the adult.
8. The liver synthesizes the plasma proteins such as albumin, globulins, blood clotting factors such as fibrinogen/prothrombin, etc., and the anticoagulant called heparin.
9. The lactic acid formed during anaerobic muscle contraction is converted into glycogen (gluconeogenesis) in the liver by Cori cycle.
10. Kupffer cells are the largest phagocytic cells which remove unwanted substances and microbes that attack the liver by phagocytosis.
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