New study in liver regeneration

Donating organs is an act of solidarity to ensure that other people can survive, but there are never enough donations and what is worse, sometimes the patient faces that his body rejects the donated organ.

how to solve this problem?

One of the possible alternatives would be for the body itself to create a new organ to replace the damaged one. Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in the USA have worked on this idea.

The promoters of the study.

In a statement on August 24 they reported that their experiments showed that large animals with diseased livers can grow a new healthy liver, they did it with pigs and the secret is in, said lead author Professor Eric Lagasse, “in the location, location, location,” the investigator stated.

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Using our regeneration ability.

And it is that liver cells are normally able to replenish themselves, but they need a healthy environment, however, in end-stage liver disease, the liver is trapped by scar tissue and the environment is too toxic for it to survive. cells to regenerate, so what the researchers did in the six pigs in their experiment was to grow a new liver in the lymph nodes, outside the toxic environment of the diseased liver.

The next step!

The researchers hope that their advance in liver culture will allow patients with damaged livers to be recovered. This experiment has been with pigs; the next step will be a clinical trial in humans.