Until now, doctors knew hepatic stellate cells mainly as drivers of liver fibrosis. The actual functions of this cell type have hardly been studied to date. Researchers have now determined that ...

2 A). This revealed distortion of the liver architecture and increased fibrosis around the lobules, associated with a proliferation of some of the bile ducts. At the periphery of the lobules ...

The left image shows hepatic tissue or lobule in a diseased state (fibrotic and inflamed); the right shows the expected state after HepaStem treatment. Making clinical strides ...

The finely balanced architecture of the liver lobules, in which the hepatocytes are arranged according to their different metabolic tasks, was completely disrupted without stellate cells.