Aging and chronic diseases involve the gradual accumulation of subtle tissue changes over a long period. Therefore, there are ...

Since the time of the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, cancer has been recognized as being sensitive to heat. Today, this ...

Excess fat mass estimated by waist circumference-to-height ratio predicts the risk of liver damage better than body mass ...

The liver is the site of first pass metabolism, detoxifying and metabolizing blood arriving from the hepatic portal vein and hepatic artery. It is made up of multiple cell types, including macrophages ...

New tissue-derived organoid model: A next-generation organoid model, composed of three liver cell types – adult hepatocytes, cholangiocytes, and liver mesenchymal cells – reconstructs the ...

This condition occurs when liver cells become overwhelmed with fat deposits, creating enlarged, tender organs that function less efficiently. Fatty liver affects nearly all heavy drinkers but ...

(TCR, T cell receptor; TEF, effector T cell; TCM, central memory T cell; TEM, effector memory T cell; TRM, tissue resident memory T cell; KLRG1, Killer cell Lectin-like Receptor G1; eATP, ...

which are cells that don’t yet have a set identity as, say, a skin or liver cell. The hope is through analysis and experimentation they’ll devise mathematics that describe the cell’s ...

Liver epithelial cell lines are considered the cell culture counterpart of liver stem/progenitor cells (for a detailed review, see Grisham and Thorgeirsson [10]). Several laboratories, including ...