Liver Regeneration: Summary of Involved Cell Types
Gamal Shiha2,3#
Affiliation
- 1Anatomy and Embryology Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Egypt
- 2Internal Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Mansoura, Egypt
- 3Head of Egyptian Liver Research Institute and Hospital (ELRIAH), Mansoura, Egypt
- #Authors contributed equally to this manuscript
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Hussein Abdellatif, Anatomy and Embryology Department, University of Mansoura, Egypt, Tel: +2 01145919955; E-mail: Hussein.abdullatif@hotmail.com
Citation
Abdellatif, H., and Shiha, G. Liver Regeneration: Summary of Involved Cell Types. (2017) J Stem Cell Regen Biol 3(1): 122- 125.
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© 2017 Abdellatif, H. This is an Open access article distributed under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Abstract
The liver has unique capacity to regulate its growth and mass. Healing process in the liver is characterized by the proliferation of all existing cell lines within the liver, including hepatocytes, hepatic progenitor cells, non parenchymal epithelial progenitors and small heptocyte like cells. Normally the liver exhibits a very low level of cell turnover, but when an abnormal hepatocyte loss occurs, a rapid regenerative response is elicited from all of these cell types in the liver. In this article, we review broadly the natural repair of the liver in response to injury.
