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

A team of researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, UMass Chan Medical School and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical ...

This research article is published in the Case Reports in Clinical Radiology, published by Scientific Scholar.Neuroendocrine tumours (NETs) affecting the extrahepatic bile ducts are ...

MAIT cells are good fighters. Researchers have found that MAIT cells can respond very quickly to infections. Their speed ...

Inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts—also known as cholangiopathies—can stop the bile from flowing, a vital fluid that helps digest fats. When bile can’t move through these ducts ...

The intrahepatic bile ducts and the cranial (proximal ... it should however also be recognized that organoids from different locations in the extrahepatic tree take on a similar transcriptomic profile ...

Director of the Gastrointestinal Malignancy program at Norton Cancer Institute Dr. Michael Driscoll said bile duct cancer is a rare cancer with only 8 thousand diagnoses every year. “It consists of ...

To understand bile duct cancer, it helps to know about the bile ducts and what they normally do. Bile is a fluid made in your liver and stored in your gallbladder. Your bile ducts are a series of thin ...

What are bile ducts? The bile ducts are small, tubular structures that play an important role in digestion by transporting bile -- a yellowish-green fluid -- from the liver and gallbladder to the ...

Each presented as a papillary frondlike projection into the lumen of the lower end of the biliary tree. In Case 16 this growth extended submucosally up the bile duct through the margin of ...

A young woman who is living with aggressive bile duct cancer shared an emotional Christmas video message from the hospital. Sydney Towle, from California, has been documenting her journey with ...