Liver cancer patients can experience many side effects during or after treatment On this World Cancer Day learn about these side effects and how to minimise complications ...

Exposure to traffic-related air pollution could harm the liver and potentially increase the likelihood of developing fatty ...

Alcohol takes on the liver, a vital organ that processes toxins, including alcohol, to keep the body healthy. Women, in particular, are more susceptible to liver damage from alcohol due to biological ...

abrogate the ability of previously activated CD8 effector T cells to kill target cells, and induce exhaustion of T cells. Thus, LSEC, the most abundant NPC in the liver, play a key role in regulating ...

This discrepancy is especially concerning as liver cancer rates have ... with two showing especially significant effects: LCA and UDCA. LCA impaired T cell function by causing endoplasmic ...

This suggests these cells may be useful as new therapeutic targets for various liver conditions. The work appears in the journal Immunity. Macrophages are specialized immune cells located in every ...

Investigation of the molecular mechanisms underpinning complex liver diseases and their pathology is an emerging goal of stem cell scope. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) derived from ...

Chemotherapeutic agents are often used to treat cancer. They combat tumor growth, but also have a number of undesirable side ...

For T cells to fight cancer in the liver, they must function around these bile acids. Previous research has shown that excess bile acids can indicate poor health and exacerbate cancer, but because ...

For T cells to fight cancer in the liver, they must function around these ... but because most studies failed to separate the effects of each individual bile acid, their specific roles in cancer ...

and occurs when excess fat builds up in liver cells. It can lead to inflammation, scarring (cirrhosis), and an increased risk of cancer and liver failure. "We think of air pollution as being ...