by Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute Duc Dong, Ph.D. Credit: Sanford Burnham Prebys Research led by Associate Professor Duc Dong, Ph.D., has shown for the first time that the effects of Alagille syndrome, an incurable genetic disorder that affects the liver, could be reversed with a single drug. The study, published in the Proceedings of the...
By tracing the steps of liver regrowth, MIT engineers hope to harness the liver’s regenerative abilities to help treat chronic disease. The human liver has amazing regeneration capabilities: Even if up to 70 percent of it is removed, the remaining tissue can regrow a full-sized liver within months. Caption:By tracing the steps of liver regrowth, MIT...
by Wellcome Trust A section of liver tissue, showing mesenchymal cells (in pink) contacting and wrapping around the liver ductal cells (also known as cholangiocytes, in yellow and blue) during the final stages of ductal-driven liver regeneration. All cell nuclei are visible in blue. Mesenchymal cells, with long cell protrusions, reminded the paper authors of octopuses....
by Boston University School of Medicine Credit: CC0 Public Domain When severely or chronically injured, the liver loses its ability to regenerate. A new study led by researchers at the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) now describes a safe new potential therapeutic tool for the recovery of...
The liver (orange) is the body’s detoxification centre and can regenerate completely after injury. By performing large-scale proteomics analysis of liver proteins, ETH researchers have discovered a protein that is essential for liver regeneration. They have also figured out the mechanism of the protein’s function. The liver is a wonderful thing: it’s the only...
