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Helping the liver regenerate itself could give patients with end-stage liver disease a treatment option besides waiting for a transplant
Liver cells, or hepatocytes, take on these many tasks ... of the most common causes of severe liver injury requiring liver transplantation in the U.S. Despite this, there is currently only one ...
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Reprogramming cells to treat liver disease
Furthermore, there is a huge shortage of liver donors. A more recent approach is transplantation of mature liver cells, known as hepatocytes. “The problem is obtaining sufficient quantities of ...
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Oral fecal transplantation could help prevent graft-versus-host disease in stem cell transplant patients
A new study shows that oral fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) is a feasible and safe addition to preventing graft-versus-host disease in patients undergoing stem cell transplantation for blood ...