A newly discovered mechanism that leads to liver dysfunction may be a key factor in type 2 diabetes and other metabolic ...

A new drug delivery system developed by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa John A. Burns School of Medicine ...

The liver has a unique structure, especially at the level of individual cells. Hepatocytes, the main liver cells, release ...

The blood samples collected from eyeballs were centrifuged to separate the serums. The levels of serum ALT and AST as liver function markers were measured by enzymatic colorimetric methods according ...

A pioneering research study published today in Cell Metabolism details how the hormone FGF21 (fibroblast growth factor 21) can reverse the effects of fatty liver disease in mice. The hormone works ...

School of Food and Biological Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province 212013, China ...

Compared with controls, treated mice exhibited lower liver weight, reduced plasma alanine transaminase and aspartate transaminase levels, and decreased hepatic triglyceride and total cholesterol.

So far, these kinds of microrobots to treat lung diseases have only been tried in mice. And the results have been promising; for example, in the latest study on pneumonia in mice, all the mice ...

Algae are the new delivery drivers: they are tiny enough to float in inhalable liquid particles and travel deep inside the lungs of mice where they drop off drugs to fight pneumonia. Years of UC San ...

Recent study analyzed postoperative liver dysfunction following lung transplantation with extracorporeal life support and its impact on outcomes, focusing on hypoxic liver dysfunction (HLD), ...

A common intestinal fungus produces a molecule that reduces symptoms of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in mice, according to research published in Science today 1. The study marks a step ...