{"id":148235,"date":"2022-10-15T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T20:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-drug-could-help-livers-self-regenerate-and-end-organ-transplant-waits"},"modified":"2022-10-15T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T20:24:56","slug":"new-drug-could-help-livers-self-regenerate-and-end-organ-transplant-waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-drug-could-help-livers-self-regenerate-and-end-organ-transplant-waits","title":{"rendered":"New drug could help livers self-regenerate and end organ transplant waits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-drug-could-help-livers-self-regenerate-and-end-organ-transplant-waits2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These findings indicate that liver cell repair and tissue regeneration are occurring.<\/p>\n<p>The liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely regrow itself even after two-thirds of its mass has been surgically removed. But damage from medications, alcohol abuse or obesity can eventually cause the liver to fail. Currently, the only effective treatment for end-stage liver disease is transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a dearth of organs available for transplantation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Liver \u2014 Organ\/iStock.<\/p>\n<p>But what if, instead of liver transplantation, there were a drug that could help the liver regenerate itself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These findings indicate that liver cell repair and tissue regeneration are occurring. The liver is known for its ability to regenerate. It can completely regrow itself even after two-thirds of its mass has been surgically removed. But damage from medications, alcohol abuse or obesity can eventually cause the liver to fail. Currently, the only effective [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}