Sentences with phrase «liver cell shape»

Feeding mice Roundup Ready soybeans exhibited changes in liver cell shape and structure that resembled the effect of a toxin; removing the GM soybeans from the diet reversed the effect.

Not exact matches

Lagasse, based at Pitt's McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, has discovered how to turn any one of the body's 500 lymph nodes — the small, oval - shaped organs where immune cells gather to fight invading pathogens — into an incubator that can grow an entirely new liver.

With a cell - by - cell assessment of gene activity they are monitoring how precursor cells shape and organize themselves into something loosely resembling a functioning liver.

The fact that these needle - shaped sporozoites may travel through as many as four other liver cells before settling down in one comes as a surprise.

«The cells began to take on the shape of liver cells, and even started to perform regular liver - cell functions,» said UCSF Postdoctoral Scholar Milad Rezvani, MD, the paper's other lead author.

The Salk study focused on a star - shaped «stellate» cell in the liver that serves as a beacon for damage.

But a deeper understanding of how Jagged regulates duct cell formation in livers could shape strategies to help fix these structures to potentially spare the 10 to 30 percent of patients that eventually need a liver transplant.»