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The synthesis of clotting factors is the hepatocytes' job.

Hepatocytes make up 80% of the liver mass, synthesising albumin, clotting factors and bile salts. The bile salts are then mixed with bicarbonate and water produced by the cholangiocytes, to form bile.
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b
Synthesis of clotting factors
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Cholangiocytes are epithelial cells found in the hepatobiliary system.

They are responsible for modifying the bile produced by the hepatocytes in the liver, making it more alkaline, through the addition of HCO^3- (bicarbonate).
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a
Secrete bicarbonate into bile
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Eliminating toxins is the Kuppfer cells' job. Kuppfer cells are sinusoidal macrophage cells, attached to endothelial cells.

Cholangiocytes are epithelial cells responsible for modifying bile produced by the hepatocytes, adding bicarbonate to it.
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d
Detoxifies substances arriving in the liver from the portal circulation
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Vitamin A is stored in liver cytosolic droplets in hepatic stellate cells.

Cholangiocytes are responsible for finalising the production of bile - they secrete bicarbonate into the bile coming from the hepatocytes.
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c
Storage of Vitamin A
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This is the job of Sinusoidal endothelial cells. The liver does not have a basement membrane - these are the cells that act as a barrier.

The cholangiocytes are not responsible for forming this barrier - instead, they add bicarbonate to the bile produced by the hepatocytes, making bile more alkaline.
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e
Allows lipid movement to and from hepatocytes
Concept
Chapter
2693
3984
Cells of the Gastrointestinal tract
Topic
136
Gastroenterology
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Which of the following describes the function of cholangiocyte cells?
a