Our livers contain many different types of immune cells. New research by the team of Prof. Charlotte Scott (VIB-UGent Center ...

Researchers from the University of Illinois have identified a key process coordinating liver maturation and polyploidization, ...

Research from VIB-UGent identifies lipid-associated macrophages and LAM-like Kupffer cells as critical for liver repair. The ...

The cells show characteristic liver-specific functions and only small ... “However, major injury like long-term virus infection, alcoholic damage and drug damage may need more drastic measures.” ...

Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease, or MASLD, is an umbrella term describing conditions related to a ...

Up to the 1980s, cell death caused by drugs, chemicals, and other pathophysiologies was primarily considered necrosis. This view radically changed with the discovery of apoptosis and its specific ...

“We’ve shown that like other tissues that need to replace lost cells, the liver has stem cells that both proliferate and give rise to mature cells, even in the absence of injury or disease.” Nusse and ...

Moreover, the cells and soluble factors participating in this response in liver are also similar to those in parenchymal injury to kidney, lung, or skin. Fibrosis occurs earliest in regions where ...

Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) is common because it can be caused by different pharmacological agents from nearly all classes of medications, including hepatotoxic drugs, anesthetics, anticancer ...

Researchers find that allergy medicine could help patients with a rare genetic disease avoid liver transplants.