This dark chasm looks like a hole in the center of a brightly colored tapestry, but it’s actually a central vein in the liver of a mouse. The liver is like a very efficient sewage treatment plant for ...

Wang began by searching for fluorescently labeled, Wnt-responsive cells in the livers of the engineered mice, and he ultimately found them clustered around the liver’s central vein. Once they knew ...

Hepatocytes display heterogeneity along the central vein-to-portal axis, marked by zonal distributions of key liver-gene ...

Learn about the increased pressure in the portal vein, its causes like cirrhosis, and resulting complications such as ...