Liver and pancreas

Liver and Pancreas Transplantation

Professor Calne performed the first liver transplant in this country in 1968 at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, shortly after he was appointed to the first Chair of Surgery in the University of Cambridge. He first described some of the experimental work carried out before work on humans could begin. He paid tribute to the pig which was able to take grafts from unrelated animals of its species...

Liver and pancreas

Various inflammatory processes and atypically appearing benign masses can have an imaging appearance very similar to or in some cases indistinguishable from cancer. In the liver such processes include inflammatory pseudotumor, sclerosed hemangioma and focal hepatic steatosis. In the pancreas heterotopic splenule, focal autoimmune pancreatitis and solid serous cystadenoma may be difficult to dis...

Mentha, Dracocephalum and Propolis effects on the health of Pancreas and Liver cells

Organogenesis: Making Pancreas from Liver

Making endocrine pancreas cells at will is one of the major goals of cellular based therapies for diabetes. The experimentally induced conversion of hepatocytes into pancreatic cells, using a modified version of the transcription factor Pdx-1, may provide an alternative to stem cell approaches.

Transdifferentiation of pancreas to liver

Transdifferentiation is the name used to describe the direct conversion of one differentiated cell type into another. Cells which have the potential to interconvert by transdifferentiation generally arise from adjacent regions in the developing embryo. For example, the liver and pancreas arise from the same region of the endoderm. The transdifferentiation of pancreas to liver (and vice versa) h...