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SUBMITTER: Wei W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7078252 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wei Weiwei W Hua Chuanfeng C Zhang Tianjiao T Dirsch Olaf O Gremse Felix F Homeyer André A Settmacher Utz U Dahmen Uta U
Scientific reports 20200317 1
The liver has the ability to maintain its total size by adjusting the size of the individual liver lobes differently in response to regeneration- and atrophy-stimuli. Portal vein ligation (PVL) drives the ligated lobe to undergo atrophy whereas partial hepatectomy (PHx) drives the total remnant liver to regenerate. We hypothesize that the size of the PVL-lobe is dependent on the balance between the extent of PVL and the extent of PHx inducing a complex interplay between hepatocyte proliferation, ...[more]