Question

What are the functions of liver except giving heat?

Answer 1

To secrete bile juice which helps in the emulsification of fats present in the food. 

Answer 2

The liver has several functions that happen simultaneously.

It makes bile, which gets collected in the bile ducts and discharges eventually through the common bile duct into the duodenum to help digestion.Sugar metabolism gets orchestrated by the liver as excess sugar turns into LDL cholesterol and triglycerides. The triglycerides get stored as fat.The liver is involved in fat metabolism. The liver takes all excess protein and carbohydrates and makes fatty acids and triglycerides that get transported into fatty cells where they are stored.The liver is involved in the protein and amino acid metabolism. Deamination and transamination of amino acids are some of the metabolic processes that take place in the liver. Ammonia has to be detoxified by converting it into urea and this is excreted in the urine.Many clotting factors that prevent blood from clotting are manufactured in the liver.Blood coming from the portal vein containing nutrients absorbed by the gut are filtered by the liver. The various component are processed as described above under point 2, 3 and 4.Detoxification of medications also takes place in the liver in combination with the kidneys. Drugs are often glucuronidated and the kidneys excrete this in the urine: Glucuronidation - an overviewConnection between liver and the immune system: the Kupffer cells originate from the lining of the so called sinuses in the liver. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc... 80% of the body’s tissue residing macrophages are Kupffer cells from the liver. They monitor any inflammation in the body and work together with the immune system to overcome infections.