Posted on Oct 7, 2023
What Is Regeneration, and Can Other Organs Regenerate Like the Liver?
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What if we could understand the process behind regeneration and what would it mean for medical treatment? Especially, in light of a shortage of donor organs?
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“Liver regeneration […] has fascinated clinicians, surgeons, and scientists who have observed this apparently supernatural process and studied its mechanisms for many years,” write a group of researchers in a 2019 paper.
The not-so-supernatural process has cells called hepatocytes that split and proliferate in response to injury or loss. Even if 90 percent of the liver is lost, the repairing process will eventually recover the liver to its full size, though not necessarily its original shape.
From the article:
“Liver regeneration […] has fascinated clinicians, surgeons, and scientists who have observed this apparently supernatural process and studied its mechanisms for many years,” write a group of researchers in a 2019 paper.
The not-so-supernatural process has cells called hepatocytes that split and proliferate in response to injury or loss. Even if 90 percent of the liver is lost, the repairing process will eventually recover the liver to its full size, though not necessarily its original shape.
What Is Regeneration, and Can Other Organs Regenerate Like the Liver?
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Lt Col Charlie Brown Medical science it wild. Who would have thought all this was possible one hundred years ago? Or even fifty for that matter.
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Lt Col Charlie Brown
True. But I think you have to have one first...in this case we need a transplant
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IF we could adapt the technology to enable those who have lost limbs, spinal cord injury, and/or organ failure to regrow those parts would be AMAZING in my opinion. I don't know if it would ever be possible but who knows. 100 years ago Diabetes was almost universally fatal. Now we have treatments that enable diabetics to live well into their 80's and 90's baring more serious conditions.
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1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel
Work in these areas continue. The biggest limiting factor is our own autoimmunity reactions. As a theologian I have postulated that this might be the effect of Original Sin that is more obvious than a rebellious teenager. As an old physiology prof, I count autoimmune reactions as the next research area, beside that is the drug companies now offering an immunosuppressant for anything and everything that ails us.
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