Sentences with phrase «called hepatocytes»

The cells in your pet's liver that do that work are called hepatocytes.

Primarily made up of specialized cells called hepatocytes, the liver performs hundreds of functions, including:

The liver's cells, called hepatocytes, work to filter and remove toxins from the blood.

When blood passes through the liver, it travels from arteries to veins through channels called sinusoids, lined with the liver cells called hepatocytes.

Anderson and Langer have previously developed nanoparticles, now in clinical development, that can deliver siRNA to liver cells called hepatocytes by coating the nucleic acids in fatty materials called lipidoids.

The researchers then tested the particles» ability to shut off the gene for a blood clotting protein called Factor VII, which is produced in the liver by cells called hepatocytes.

Liver failure occurs when healthy cells called hepatocytes are damaged by alcohol and disease.

Gandhi's research team is the first to develop a mouse model with depleted levels of a protein called augmenter of liver regeneration (ALR), which is essential for the survival of liver cells called hepatocytes.

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An enzymatic defect in the tyrosine catabolism results in a toxic accumulation of byproducts within hepatocytes unless the mice are treated with a drug called NBTC.