Blocking Excessive Division of Cell Powerhouses Reduces Liver Cell Death in Cholestasis (IMAGE)

Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Blocking Excessive Division of Cell Powerhouses Reduces Liver Cell Death in Cholestasis

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The power plants that fuel liver cells rapidly splinter when exposed to bile salts that aid digestion, prompting cell death, but blocking this excessive fission appears to protect the liver, according to research by Medical College of Georgia Cell Physiologist Dr. Yisang Yoon.

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Phil Jones, Senior Photographer, Georgia Regents University.

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