Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Mfsd2a+ hepatocytes repopulate the liver during injury and regeneration

  • Wenjuan Pu,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Xiuzhen Huang,
  • Xueying Tian,
  • Lingjuan He,
  • Yue Wang,
  • Libo Zhang,
  • Qiaozhen Liu,
  • Yan Li,
  • Yi Li,
  • Huan Zhao,
  • Kuo Liu,
  • Jie Lu,
  • Yingqun Zhou,
  • Pengyu Huang,
  • Yu Nie,
  • Yan Yan,
  • Lijian Hui,
  • Kathy O. Lui,
  • Bin Zhou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13369
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Hepatocytes are highly specialized cells and their fate is determined by their position in the liver as either periportal or perivenous hepatocytes. Here, Pu et al. show through genetic lineage tracing for Mfsd2 that periportal hepatocytes proliferate and reprogram into pericentral hepatocytes during liver regeneration and injury.