MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -The connective tissue septae invaginating from the capsule delineate hepatic lobules, the structural unit of the liver.

Detailed explanation-2: -Occupying the bulk of the lobule are hepatocytes arranged into cords. separated by sinusoids. Lobules appear quite clearly in pig liver, which has an envelope of fibrous connective tissue around each lobule.

Detailed explanation-3: -The normal liver contains typical connective tissue proteins (collagens, structural glycoproteins and proteoglycans) not only in vessel walls, perivascular areas and in the capsule, but they occur also in small amounts in the parenchyma, mainly in the space of Disse along the sinusoidal walls.