上海科学家新发现为肝脏疾病治疗提供新理论 - 2021年03月02日

Local scientists have developed a “video recorder” to monitor cell proliferation in the liver, providing new ideas for liver regeneration research and the treatment of liver diseases.
The liver has roughly 100,000 liver lobules, the functional units of the organ, and each liver lobule has a bunch of hepatocytes, the major cell type in the liver that makes up 70-85 percent of its volume.
Hepatocytes generate new hepatocytes through cell proliferation to replenish the liver. The liver lobules are in three zones, but traditional methods can’t identify in which zone hepatocytes have a stronger proliferation ability as the proliferation is hard to detect.