News tagged with hepatocytes
Hepatocyte
A hepatocyte is a cell of the main tissue of the liver. Hepatocytes make up 70-80% of the liver's cytoplasmic mass. These cells are involved in:
The hepatocyte also initiates formation and secretion of bile.
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Japanese researchers report on liver transplantation studies using animal and iPS cells
Two research teams from the Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine (Okayama, Japan) have reported breakthrough studies in liver cell transplantation. One team found that the technical breakthrough in creating induced ...
Oct 18, 2010 |
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Reprogramming a patient's eye cells may herald new treatments against degenerative disease
Scientists have overcome a key barrier to the clinical use of stem cells with a technique which transforms regular body cells into artificial stem cells without the need for introducing foreign genetic materials, which could ...
Oct 22, 2009 |
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Scientists develop novel method to generate functional hepatocytes for drug testing
Scientists have for the first time produced liver cells from adult skin cells using the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) technology.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 20, 2009 |
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Research isolates liver cancer stem cells prior to tumor formation
Penn State College of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Southern California, have taken an important step in understanding the role of stem cells in development of liver cancer. Using ...
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Improvement of liver stem cell engraftment by protein delivery
Researchers at INSERM (France) have engineered a chimeric protein that increases cell survival, migration and proliferation to improve stem cell engraftment. The results, which appear in the September 2009 issue of Experimental Bi ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Aug 24, 2009 |
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A potential targeting gene therapy for developing HCV
Gene therapy has emerged as a novel approach to combat HCV infection in the last few years. However, one of the most important obstacles to overcome is "targeting": the appropriate genes must be delivered and expressed in ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jul 16, 2009 |
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What is the role of reactive oxygen species in ethanol-mediated cell death of polarized hepatic cells?
Liver disease that results as a consequence of alcohol abuse is a major medical problem worldwide. Ethanol consumption leads to a variety of liver alterations including the accumulation of fat, inflammation of the liver, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 15, 2009 |
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