Because of its marked capacity to regenerate and the ability of chemical carcinogens and viruses to ready transform hepatocytes, the liver has been used extensi

Stem Cells and Cancer in Hepatology: From the Essentials to Application offers basic scientists and clinicians in the fields of stem cells, hepatology and oncol

Presents an approach to the hepatic physiology and multiple developments about cellular biology such as cell cycle regulation, growth factors and oncogenes.

During the last years much attention has been given to the investigation of the roles of specific growth modulators acting on liver cell populations. HGF functi

Although cell turnover in normal adult liver is extremely low, hepatic tissue is notorious for its almost infinite capacity to regenerate in cases of viral, tox