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Heterogeneity and plasticity of hepatocyte lineage cells.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Mar 2001
Sell S
Abstract excerpt
It is hypothesized that the liver has 3 levels of cells in the hepatic lineage that respond to injury or carcinogenesis: 1) the mature hepatocyte, which responds to partial hepatectomy (PH), to centrolobular injury, such as that induced by carbon tetrachloride (CCl(4)), and to dimethylnitrosamine (DEN) hepatocarcinogenesis; 2) the ductular "bipolar" progenitor cell, which responds to centrolobular injury when the...
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