PMID- 26608186 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160603 LR - 20160203 IS - 1522-1547 (Electronic) IS - 0193-1857 (Linking) VI - 310 IP - 3 DP - 2016 Feb 1 TI - The role of liver progenitor cells during liver regeneration, fibrogenesis, and carcinogenesis. PG - G143-54 LID - 10.1152/ajpgi.00215.2015 [doi] AB - The growing worldwide challenge of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma due to increasing prevalence of excessive alcohol consumption, viral hepatitis, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome has sparked interest in stem cell-like liver progenitor cells (LPCs) as potential candidates for cell therapy and tissue engineering, as an alternative approach to whole organ transplantation. However, LPCs always proliferate in chronic liver diseases with a predisposition to cancer; they have been suggested to play major roles in driving fibrosis, disease progression, and may even represent tumor-initiating cells. Hence, a greater understanding of the factors that govern their activation, communication with other hepatic cell types, and bipotential differentiation as opposed to their potential transformation is needed before their therapeutic potential can be harnessed. CI - Copyright (c) 2016 the American Physiological Society. FAU - Kohn-Gaone, Julia AU - Kohn-Gaone J AD - Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth Western Australia, Australia; FAU - Gogoi-Tiwari, Jully AU - Gogoi-Tiwari J AD - Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth Western Australia, Australia; FAU - Ramm, Grant A AU - Ramm GA AD - QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; FAU - Olynyk, John K AU - Olynyk JK AD - Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth Western Australia, Australia; Fiona Stanley and Fremantle Hospitals, Western Australia, Australia; School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia; and. FAU - Tirnitz-Parker, Janina E E AU - Tirnitz-Parker JE AD - Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, Curtin University, Perth Western Australia, Australia; School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Fremantle Western Australia, Australia N.Tirnitz-Parker@curtin.edu.au. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Review DEP - 20151125 PL - United States TA - Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol JT - American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology JID - 100901227 SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Carcinogenesis/*pathology MH - Humans MH - Liver/*pathology MH - Liver Cirrhosis/*pathology MH - Liver Neoplasms/*pathology MH - *Liver Regeneration MH - *Stem Cells OTO - NOTNLM OT - carcinogenesis OT - chronic liver disease OT - fibrosis OT - liver progenitor cells OT - liver regeneration EDAT- 2015/11/27 06:00 MHDA- 2016/06/04 06:00 CRDT- 2015/11/27 06:00 PHST- 2015/06/30 00:00 [received] PHST- 2015/11/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2015/11/27 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2015/11/27 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/06/04 06:00 [medline] AID - ajpgi.00215.2015 [pii] AID - 10.1152/ajpgi.00215.2015 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2016 Feb 1;310(3):G143-54. doi: 10.1152/ajpgi.00215.2015. Epub 2015 Nov 25.