In all cases, blood flow problems had developed within and around the graft. Still, the transplanted mini-livers worked, proven by the fact that the rats had human liver proteins in their blood serum.

THE liver acts as a selective barrier between the gastrointestinal tract and the systemic circulation, metabolizing, detoxifying and elaborating for further physiologic disposition various ...

Cardiac output was measured using the noninvasive Peñáz technique, while hepatic blood flow was assessed using the surrogate marker of plasma disappearance rate of indocyanine green as well as ...

In animal experiments, a remarkable variation in hepatic blood flow has been observed, ranging in one study 11 from 40 to 160 cc. per minute per 100 gm. of liver tissue. The variability has been ...