{"id":182132,"date":"2024-02-06T12:25:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-growth-factor-for-the-liver-identified"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:25:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T18:25:38","slug":"new-growth-factor-for-the-liver-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/new-growth-factor-for-the-liver-identified","title":{"rendered":"New growth factor for the liver identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-growth-factor-for-the-liver-identified.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A healthy liver is capable of completely regenerating itself. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU), University Hospital D\u00fcsseldorf (UKD) and the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) have now identified the growth factor MYDGF (Myeloid-Derived Growth Factor), which is important for this regenerative capacity.<\/p>\n<p>In cooperation with the Hannover Medical School and the University Medical Center Mainz, they also showed that higher levels of MYDGF can be detected in the blood of patients following partial removal of the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/liver\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-44760-y\">In a study published in <i>Nature Communications<\/i><\/a>, they also report that this <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/growth+factor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">growth factor<\/a> stimulates the proliferation of human hepatocytes in a tissue culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A healthy liver is capable of completely regenerating itself. Researchers from Heinrich Heine University D\u00fcsseldorf (HHU), University Hospital D\u00fcsseldorf (UKD) and the German Diabetes Center (DDZ) have now identified the growth factor MYDGF (Myeloid-Derived Growth Factor), which is important for this regenerative capacity. In cooperation with the Hannover Medical School and the University Medical Center [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182132","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}