ROLE OF CHOLANGIOLES IN RESTORATION OF THE LIVER OF THE MOUSE AFTER DIETARY INJURY
ROLE OF CHOLANGIOLES IN RESTORATION OF THE LIVER OF THE MOUSE AFTER DIETARY INJURY
复制标题
DOI:
10.1002/path.1700760213
复制
发表时间:
1958-01-01
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
LEDUC, EH
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
WILSON, JW;LEDUC, EH
Eighteen to 30-day-old mice were fed a methionine-rich basal diet mixed with an equal amount of bentonite. After 60 to 80 days the livers are strikingly abnormal. The parenchymal cells are enormously increased in size and correspondingly reduced in number. This results from death and removal of isolated, randomly distributed parenchymal cells; surviving parenchymal cells increase in size but are unable to divide. Between these cells are numerous cholangioles, which become prominent by thickening and mitotic proliferation of their cells. If the injurious diet is then replaced by a basal diet, the normal architectun of the liver is restored. This restoration involves continued death and disappearance of the original, enlarged parenchymal cells and production of new, small parenchymal cells by transformation of the cholangiole cells. The latter form nodules that apparently represent the functional units of Rappaport. These nodules enlarge by mitotic division and increase in size of the new parenchymal cells, until they become confluent and eventually replace the original parenchyma completely. Apparently after prolonged and severe injury to the liver which makes direct restoration by division of preexisting parenchymal cells impossible, the new parenchyma is derived from indifferent cholangiole cells.