Specialized blood vessels jumpstart and sustain liver regeneration

Sunday, November 14, 2010 - 08:30 in Health & Medicine

The liver's unique ability among organs to regenerate itself has been little understood. Now scientists have shed light on how the liver restores itself by demonstrating that endothelial cells -- the cells that form the lining of blood vessels -- play a key role.

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