Our livers contain many different types of immune cells ... most macrophages are classified as Kupffer cells (KCs). However, upon liver injury, as seen, for example, in obesity, another subset ...

Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

Researchers from Columbia University and the German Cancer Center have found that stellate cells—star-shaped liver cells long known as the main perpetrators in liver fibrosis—have a commanding role in ...

Acquired DNA mutations found in the SERPINA1 gene can protect liver cells from damage in patients with alpha-1 antitrypsin ...

The most common type is hepatocellular carcinoma, which begins in the main type of liver cell (hepatocyte). Other types of liver cancer, like intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma and hepatoblastoma, are ...

Liver-derived MSCs ... to start human studies in NASH. These are the types of widespread disease in which scalable, allogeneic cell therapies are needed. Supported by the immunogenicity data ...

High levels of ammonia kill liver cells by damaging the mitochondria that power the cells. But this can be prevented using an existing drug due to start clinical trials, finds a new study in mice.

Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease ... that occurs when the body breaks down red blood cells. A doctor may use a liver function test to monitor the levels of these ...