Category:Liver - Toxic Pathology

As well as playing a central role in detoxification in the body, the liver itself is very susceptible to intoxication.

A vast number of hepatoxic agents are known, and it is impossible to describe and list all of them. Drugs, plant and fungal products, metals and other chemicals are all absorbed from the gut and passed to the liver for detoxification.

In the course of this process, new products may be formed, and it can be these metabolites rather than the original compound which is hepatotoxic.