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The versatile and plastic liver

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There is conflicting evidence about which cell type is responsible for liver regeneration following damage. It emerges that duct-like progenitor cells arise from hepatocytes after liver damage, a finding that reconciles previous data.

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Figure 1: Regeneration of the liver.

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  1. in the Department of Physiology, Meritxell Huch is at the Wellcome Trust/MRC Stem Cell Institute, Development and Neuroscience, and at the Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QN, UK.,

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