{"id":1430,"date":"2022-02-07T12:04:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T09:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2022-10-31T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T10:18:17","slug":"skin-cells-to-treat-the-liver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/skin-cells-to-treat-the-liver\/","title":{"rendered":"Skin cells to treat the liver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">American scientists have indicated that liver cells grown from the patient&#8217;s skin cells can contribute to the treatment of liver disease without relying on organ transplants.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Stephen Duncan, a professor of genetics at the Medical Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, said that this is an essential step towards developing treatments that can become an alternative to the rare liver transplant surgery, which is considered the most advanced treatment for liver diseases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He explained that his team was able to generate a large number of liver cells for a specific patient by reprogramming the skin cells to resemble embryonic stem cells.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Duncan argued that stem cell-based therapies may be best suited to the liver due to its high reproducibility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Liver disease is the fourth leading cause of death among middle-aged American adults, and is caused by hepatitis C viruses, genetic modifications, excessive drinking or chronic drug use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American scientists have indicated that liver cells grown from the patient&#8217;s skin cells can contribute to the treatment of liver disease without relying on organ transplants. Stephen Duncan, a professor of genetics at the Medical Institute in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, said that this is an essential step towards developing treatments that can become an alternative to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whmc-sa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}