HHMI researchers solve a longstanding mystery about the origin of new cells in the liver. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) scientists have identified stem cells in the liver that give rise to ...

Liver cells, so-called hepatocytes, make up about 60 percent of the total cell number of the organ. They have important metabolic tasks and are active in detoxification and metabolism.

A more recent approach is transplantation of mature liver cells, known as hepatocytes. “The problem is obtaining sufficient quantities of fully functioning hepatocytes,” says Ochiya.

Matched tumor-to-nontumor (liver, spleen, muscle) activity concentration ratios ... Planar gamma camera image of [131I]-FIAU-labeled T cells 4 days post-injection in a SCID mouse, bearing a matched ...