Inspired by hepatic lobules, a novel artificial liver was developed by assembling morphological cell sheets with high accuracy in terms of cell type, density, and distribution. By simulating the ...

Liver cells are organized around the central veins to form hexagonal hepatic lobules that are powerhouses of liver metabolism and immune-metabolic regulators upon infection.

The portal tracts, which include branches of the hepatic artery ... Ongoing injury in the lobules, represented by inflammation, apoptotic hepatocytes, or acidophil bodies, and Kupffer cell ...

Sokal and Najimi discovered liver-derived cells expressing mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) markers, as well as vimentin, alpha-smooth muscle actin, and other hepatic markers. Neither biliary markers ...