Ghent, 24 January 2025 – Our livers contain many different types of immune cells ... In the healthy liver, most macrophages are classified as Kupffer cells (KCs). However, upon liver injury ...

Under the right conditions, the cells differentiated into the two main cell types found in the liver, hepatocytes that carry out metabolic functions, and cholangiocytes, the cells that line the ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the ...

Scientists at EMBL and DKFZ have discovered how cells in the liver maintain their identity and avoid becoming tumour cells ...

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 ...

A guardian molecule ensures that liver cells do not lose their identity. This has been discovered by researchers from the ...

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 ...

with no interaction with other liver cell types. This allows the gene therapy to be effective in target fibrotic liver disease cells, with no effect in the non-target liver cells. A significant effect ...