Intrahepatic bile ducts

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Intrahepatic bile ducts compose the outflow system of exocrine bile product from the liver.

They can be divided into:^[2]

Lobar ducts (right and left hepatic ducts) - stratified columnar epithelium.
Interlobar ducts (between the main hepatic ducts and the interlobular ducts) - pseudostratified columnar epithelium.
Interlobular bile ducts (between the interlobar ducts and the lobules) - simple columnar epithelium.
Intralobular bile ducts (cholangioles or Canals of Hering) - simple cuboidal epithelium, then by hepatocytes
Bile canaliculi - two half-canaliculi formed by the hepatocytes facing the perisinusoidal space

References

^ Standring S, Borley NR, eds. (2008). Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice. Brown JL, Moore LA (40th ed.). London: Churchill Livingstone. pp. 1163, 1177, 1185–6. ISBN 978-0-8089-2371-8.
^ Roderick N. M. MacSween; Alastair D. Burt; Bernard Portmann; Linda D. Ferrell (2007). MacSween's pathology of the liver. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-443-10012-3.

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[1] Standring S, Borley NR, eds. (2008). Gray's anatomy : the anatomical basis of clinical practice. Brown JL, Moore LA (40th ed.). London: Churchill Livingstone. pp. 1163, 1177, 1185–6. ISBN 978-0-8089-2371-8.

[MacSweenBurt2007-2] Roderick N. M. MacSween; Alastair D. Burt; Bernard Portmann; Linda D. Ferrell (2007). MacSween's pathology of the liver. Elsevier Health Sciences. p. 518. ISBN 978-0-443-10012-3.

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