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  • adjective Originating or occurring outside the liver.

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  • adjective Happening or existing outside the liver.

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Examples

  • Most cholesterol under normal conditions is manufactured in extrahepatic tissues, and the principal and essential task is to move cholesterol to the liver for excretion as bile acids and unaltered cholesterol.

    Statin effects of low-carb diets | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • True or false: Most cholesterol under normal conditions is manufactured in extrahepatic tissues.

    Statin effects of low-carb diets | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • Cortisone acts as a physiological antagonist to insulin by decreasing glycogenesis (formation of glycogen) and promotes breakdown of lipids (lipolysis), and proteins, and mobilization of extrahepatic amino acids and ketone bodies.

    Vytorin: Dis-Enhance-d | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008

  • Bile-duct tumors that develop within the liver and the distal biliary tree are referred to as intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas, respectively.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Bile-duct tumors that develop within the liver and the distal biliary tree are referred to as intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas, respectively.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Roshan had been diagnosed with extrahepatic biliary atresia - a rare condition in which the common bile duct in newborns is blocked or has not developed.

    The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata) - Frontpage 2010

  • Bile-duct tumors that develop within the liver and the distal biliary tree are referred to as intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas, respectively.

    Medlogs - Recent stories 2010

  • Gastrointestinalgastrointestinal buying antabus online hours have included an due metallic or garlic-like product in the advice and extrahepatic breath. antabus antabuse name time is in therapy and is formerly transdermal to the applying countries: australia, canada, great britain, new zealand, and south africa.

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  • Thus, the reduction of lipotoxic lipids could be one of the major pathways by which the high-KAA diet maintains muscle AMPK and extrahepatic substrate utilization. ob/ob mice that had already developed noticeable insulin resistance and hepatic steatosis before KAA treatment.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Yasushi Noguchi et al. 2010

  • Williams TP, Kasorndorkbua C, Halbur PG, Haqshenas G, Guenette DK, et al. (2001) Evidence of extrahepatic sites of replication of the hepatitis E virus in a swine model.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongxia Ma et al. 2010

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