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Liver Transplants

ed84c
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If a liver can be grown from 7/8ths dead why can't new ones be grown in a lab?

it requires too much support, the body can usualy provide this if in good enough health.

This is another one of those things that will be revolutionized by stem cells... just wait.

Let's hope so... livers on demand would make a huge difference.

That's pretty cool how they can cut a third off a donated liver and give it to a child, and give the biger part to an adult and save two people.

 

But why can it do that, and nothing else can? Or is there other parts of the body that can do that??

-Demosthenes- said in post # :

That's pretty cool how they can cut a third off a donated liver and give it to a child, and give the biger part to an adult and save two people.

 

But why can it do that, and nothing else can? Or is there other parts of the body that can do that??

 

It can do that because although the liver is a complex, multi-function organ, in structure it is homogenous. Every part of the liver is exactly the same as every other part (consisting of lobuli). To regenerate, all it has to do is to create more lobuli. In this, the liver is unique. No other organ is homogenous in structure.

I'm ending this now because it's been answered already, and the fewer venues there are for people to repeat dumbed-down versions of previous replies the better :rolleyes:

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