Beyond liver transplants: Acutely damaged livers may be repaired via transplanted hepatocytes

Monday, February 1, 2010 - 15:28 in Health & Medicine

A research team from the National Taiwan University Hospital has evaluated the efficiency of transplanted hepatocyte (liver) cells in animal models severely damaged by two kinds of chemical toxicity to see whether and how transplanted hepatocytes were able to efficiently repopulate the toxin-induced, severely damaged livers.

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