{"id":148378,"date":"2022-10-18T01:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/mouse-study-reveals-how-to-help-speed-up-the-livers-self-regeneration-process"},"modified":"2022-10-18T01:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T06:22:19","slug":"mouse-study-reveals-how-to-help-speed-up-the-livers-self-regeneration-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/mouse-study-reveals-how-to-help-speed-up-the-livers-self-regeneration-process","title":{"rendered":"Mouse Study Reveals How to Help Speed Up The Liver\u2019s Self-Regeneration Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mouse-study-reveals-how-to-help-speed-up-the-livers-self-regeneration-process2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The liver is known for its <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41575-020-0342-4\">ability to regenerate<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the only effective treatment for end-stage liver disease is <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1053\/j.gastro.2017.01.003\">transplantation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/lt.25320\">dearth of organs available<\/a> for transplantation. Patients may have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/states-with-shortest-liver-transplant-waiting-list\">wait from 30 days to over 5 years<\/a> to receive a liver for transplant in the US. Of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.organdonor.gov\/learn\/organ-donation-statistics\">over 11,600 patients<\/a> on the waiting list to receive a liver transplant in 2021, only a little over 9,200 received one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<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. However, there is a dearth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148378","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}