News tagged with liver cells

Do salamanders hold the solution to regeneration?

Salamanders' immune systems are key to their remarkable ability to regrow limbs, and could also underpin their ability to regenerate spinal cords, brain tissue and even parts of their hearts, scientists have ...

Medical research created May 20, 2013 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Explainer: What is diabetes?

To keep your body functioning, glucose must always be present in your blood. It's as important as oxygen in the air you breathe. The brain can only function for a few minutes without either before it stops ...

Diabetes created May 13, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Turning human stem cells into brain cells sheds light on neural development

Medical researchers have manipulated human stem cells into producing types of brain cells known to play important roles in neurodevelopmental disorders such as epilepsy, schizophrenia and autism. The new model cell system ...

Medical research created May 02, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Estrogen fuels autoimmune liver damage

A life-threatening condition that often requires transplantation and accounts for half of all acute liver failures, autoimmune hepatitis is often precipitated by certain anesthetics and antibiotics. Researchers say these ...

Medical research created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New drug stimulates immune system to kill infected cells in animal model of hepatitis B infection

A novel drug developed by Gilead Sciences and tested in an animal model at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute in San Antonio suppresses hepatitis B virus infection by stimulating the immune system and inducing loss of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Cardio could hold key to cancer cure

Regular exercise has been proven to reduce the chance of developing liver cancer in a world-first mice study that carries hope for patients at risk from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Cancer created Apr 26, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sunshine hormone, vitamin D, may offer hope for treating liver fibrosis

Liver fibrosis results from an excessive accumulation of tough, fibrous scar tissue and occurs in most types of chronic liver diseases. In industrialized countries, the main causes of liver injury leading ...

Medical research created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel therapeutic approaches to cure chronic HBV infection

Exciting new data presented today at the International Liver Congress 2013 include results from early in vitro and in vivo studies targeting covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA), which may form the basis of a cure for ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 25, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Organovo announces ability to print 3D human liver tissue

(Medical Xpress)—Organovo Holdings, Inc., a company that designs and creates functional human tissue has announced at this year's Experimental Biology Conference that it has developed a 3D printing technique ...

Medical research created Apr 24, 2013 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Metastasis stem cells in the blood of breast cancer patients discovered

Individual cancer cells that break away from the original tumor and circulate through the blood stream are considered responsible for the development of metastases. These dreaded secondary tumors are the ...

Cancer created Apr 22, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Liver disease: Understanding it will enable the provision of better treatment

In this prospective study, led by Dr Richard Moreau, INSERM Research Director (Mixed Research Unit 773 "Centre de Recherche biomédicale Bichat-Beaujon"; INSERM/Université Paris Diderot) who is also a practitioner attached ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Liver cancers armed with many strategies for evading immune response

(Medical Xpress)—Researchers at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) have published findings that help explain how a common and particularly resilient form of liver cancer evades the body's natural antitumor responses. ...

Cancer created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New ablation technique holds promise for liver cancer patients

A new minimally invasive tumor ablation technique is providing hope for liver cancer patients who can't undergo surgery or thermal ablation, a study shows.

Cancer created Apr 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Vitamin A could prevent the spread of prostate cancer

(Medical Xpress)—Vitamin A could help treat and prevent the spread of prostate cancer, according to research published today (Monday, April 15th) in Oncogenesis.

Cancer created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New genetic screen paves the way for long-sought treatments for liver disease

Chronic liver failure is a major health problem that causes about one million deaths around the world each year. A study published April 11th by Cell Press in the journal Cell reveals a new type of screen for identifying genes ...

Medical research created Apr 11, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hepatocyte

Hepatocytes make up 70-80% of the cytoplasmic mass of the liver. These cells are involved in protein synthesis, protein storage and transformation of carbohydrates, synthesis of cholesterol, bile salts and phospholipids, and detoxification, modification and excretion of exogenous and endogenous substances. The hepatocyte also initiates the formation and secretion of bile.

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