Sentences with phrase «healthy hepatocytes»

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

Eliminating these constraints, hepatocytes differentiated from human induced pluripotent stem (hiPS) cells provide an unlimited supply of functional hepatocytes from each parental cell line, which can be derived noninvasively from a diseased or healthy person.

The researchers found that patients from MODY3 families had one of several different mutations in the gene for hepatocyte nuclear factor 1 alpha (HNF -1-alpha) but healthy subjects had normal copies of the gene.