Sentence examples for unit of the liver from inspiring English sources

However, the functional unit of the liver is the hepatocyte, which is the cell type from which hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) develops.

The liver lobule is the histologically well-defined structural unit of the liver (Fig.  2).

The classical structural unit of the liver is the hepatic lobule (Bioulac-Sage et al., 2007).

The functional unit of the liver is the acinus, which extends from the portal venule along the sinusoids to the terminal hepatic venule.

The functional unit of the liver, the lobule, is roughly cylindrical, with branches of the hepatic artery and portal vein together with bile ducts at its periphery, and a central vein branch in the middle.

Plates of parenchymal cells or hepatocytes radiate from the central vein to the perimeter of the lobule to define the basic functional unit of the liver, known as the acinus, which also serves as a microcosm of the major hepatic microenvironments, containing the essential cellular and physiological features that define the unique architecture of the liver tissue.

The inferior margin target volume would be difficult to distinguish from the liver as the Hounsfield units of the liver and a soft tissue tumour would be similar.

Patients were prospectively and randomly enrolled from November 2010 to November 2012 in the liver unit of the University Hospital of Nice, France.

Dr. Charles Miller, the surgeon who performed the Hurewitz transplant and the mentor who recruited Dr. Bromberg in 1998, resigned as head of the liver unit.

One unit of bovine liver CAT (Sigma, St . Louis USA) was used as a control for the chemical reaction (Boaretto et al. 2014).

Cases were 221 patients with HCC recruited among subjects referred to the Outpatient Liver Unit of the hospital.