For the first time, researchers have successfully connected a functioning liver from a genetically modified pig to a human body.* In a step toward testing the procedure in living people ...

Unlike previous procedures where doctors transplanted pig organs directly into the human body ... who suffer from an acute liver injury and who need time to recover normal liver function.

Transplanting an animal organ into a human is now a closer reality following the successful xenotransplantation of a genetically modified pig liver into a patient diagnosed with brain death in China.

A modified pig liver transplanted into a human patient appears to have functioned ... multiple different teams have reported normal functioning after transplantation inside brain-dead patients.

We conclude that there is no significant difference in ether, cyclopropane and spinal anesthesia in their effect on the normal human liver. It is probable that the changes in liver function ...

Doctors in China have become the first to report details about a transplant of a genetically modified pig liver into a human. The liver was transplanted last year into a person who was brain-dead ...

For this study, small pieces (3–5 cm3) of postmortem human liver (right central parenchyma ... in dementia samples were higher than in a normal frontal cortex, although no causality was ...

Abnormal liver tests occur in 1 of 10 pregnancies, though liver function is usually normal during pregnancy. The data suggest that liver metabolic capacity may be reduced in late pregnancy.

The liver is difficult to palpate in women during ... excretion of both compounds is impaired in the last half of normal human pregnancy. Thus, the clearance of compounds that are metabolized ...