Your Cell's Wonderful Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum

The smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum has a great deal of functions! It synthesizes lipids, carbohydrates, and detoxifies drugs and other poisons. This is important in the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum of the liver cells. The SER is important to the synthesizing process of fatty acids, phospholipids, steroids and other lipids. Glygogen is stored in the SER and leads to the release of glucose in liver cells, and also regulates the sugar in your blood. In the liver cell, the smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum can take the phosphate from the glucose and when it leaves the cell it can elevate the bloods sugar concentration. The smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum can add hydroxyl groups to drugs especially in the liver cells; for example drugs such as sedative phenobarital and other barbitals. In muscle cells, the SER pumps Calcium ions when stimulated by a nerve impulse. The Calcium ions can trigger a concentration of the muscle cell. That is the smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum!!!