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Generating Rabbit Liver Carcinoma Model: A Surgical Procedure to Implant Tumor Tissue in Left Lobe of Liver for Induction of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate the surgical implantation of tumor tissue into a rabbit liver to induce hepatocellular carcinoma. The procedure helps establish a reliable animal model to study tumor behavior and development of locoregional treatments targeting cancers of the liver.
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In vivo Liver Endocytosis Followed by Purification of Liver Cells by Liver Perfusion
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2011
The study of liver sinusoidal endothelial cells (SECs) must be performed with primary cells obtained from the animal as no cell lines exist. This method relies on liver digestion and differential centrifugation for SEC purification for subsequent culturing and experimentation.
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Natural Killer Cell Isolation from Liver Tissue for Selective Expansion
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2025
This video demonstrates the isolation of lymphocytes, including natural killer cells or NK cells, from human liver tissue for selective expansion. Enzymatic and mechanical digestion, followed by density gradient separation, promotes lymphocyte isolation, including NK cells. The collected lymphocytes can be further used for the selective expansion of NK cells.
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The Use of Gas Chromatography to Analyze Compositional Changes of Fatty Acids in Rat Liver Tissue during Pregnancy
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Cited by 71 •
2014
Pregnancy leads to significant changes to the fatty acid composition of maternal tissues. Lipid profiles can be obtained via gas chromatography to allow identification and quantification of fatty acids in individual lipid classes among rats fed various high and low fat diets during pregnancy.
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Laser Capture Microdissection of Paraformaldehyde-Fixed Mouse Liver Tissue for RNA Analysis
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2026
This protocol describes a method to isolate RNA from defined histological regions of paraformaldehyde-fixed, Optimal Cutting Temperature compound-embedded mouse liver tissue using laser capture microdissection, enabling targeted downstream gene expression analysis.
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The arrangement creates a coordinated exchange system. Blood travels through sinusoids alongside hepatocytes, where circulating substances can be modified, while bile moves through ducts in the opposite direction. This directional separation allows the tissue to process blood and route bile simultaneously, linking metabolic regulation, waste removal, and bile transport within the same lobular unit.
Hepatocytes are the principal processing cells described in the tissue, and sinusoids provide the blood pathway that brings circulating materials into contact with them. Through this arrangement, hepatocytes can regulate glucose and lipid levels, synthesize plasma proteins, process medications, and modify other substances in the blood. The sinusoidal route connects tissue architecture directly to systemic metabolic and chemical control.
Lobules organize hepatocytes, sinusoids, bile ducts, and supporting cells into a functional unit rather than leaving these components spatially separate. That organization helps coordinate incoming blood, hepatocyte activity, and outgoing bile. It also gives researchers a structural framework for interpreting how altered architecture could affect normal function, injury responses, disease mechanisms, or regeneration.
Researchers can examine liver tissue to connect structural or functional changes with injury, disease mechanisms, and regeneration. The tissue provides a setting for studying how disruption of its coordinated components may affect metabolism, detoxification, nutrient storage, or blood processing. These investigations can clarify organ responses and support questions about recovery after damage.
Because hepatocytes process medications while the tissue also modifies circulating substances, liver tissue offers a biological context for examining how drugs are handled and how they may affect liver function. This makes it useful for investigating drug toxicity and for developing tissue-engineered models that represent relevant liver activities in a structured experimental setting.
A useful model should reflect more than isolated liver-cell activity. Based on liver tissue organization, it should account for lobules, hepatocytes, sinusoids, bile ducts, supporting cells, and the contrasting directions of blood and bile movement. Reproducing these relationships can help models address organ function, disease mechanisms, drug toxicity, and regeneration in a structured biological context.