Liver sinusoid

Sinusoid of a rat liver with fenestrated endothelial cells. Fenestrae are approx 100 nm diameter, and the sinusoidal width 5 µm. Scanning electron micrograph by Robin Fraser, University of Otago.

A single lobule of the liver of a pig. X 60.

A liver sinusoid is a type of sinusoidal blood vessel (with fenestrated, discontinuous endothelium) that serve as a location for the oxygen-rich blood from the hepatic artery and the nutrient-rich blood from the portal vein.^[1]

Liver sinusoids are equipped with Kupffer cells that can take up and destroy foreign material such as bacteria entering the sinusoids.

Human liver sinusoid

[edit] References

1. ^ SIU SOM Histology GI

[edit] External links

• Web page about the liver from the Christchurch School of Medicine
• UIUC Histology Subject 589
• Histology at BU 15504loa - "Liver, Gall Bladder, and Pancreas: liver, classic lobule"
• Histology at BU 22103loa - "Ultrastructure of the Cell: hepatocytes and sinusoids, sinusoid and space of Disse"
• Histology at anhb.uwa.edu.au

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