Tri-iodothyronine as a stimulator of liver regeneration after partial and subtotal hepatectomy.

Maximilian Bockhorn,Andrea Frilling,T. Benkö,Jan Best,Sien-Yi Sheu,M. Trippler,Jf Schlaak,Christoph E. Broelsch

Tri-iodothyronine as a stimulator of liver regeneration after partial and subtotal hepatectomy.

2007

Maximilian Bockhorn
Andrea Frilling
T. Benkö
Jan Best
Sien-Yi Sheu
M. Trippler
Jf Schlaak
Christoph E. Broelsch

Background: Tri-iodothyronine (T3) has been shown to be a hepatic mitogen. We investigated whether exogenous application of T3 improves liver regeneration after 70% partial hepatect

Keywords:

Subtotal hepatectomy
Liver regeneration
General practice
Liver transplantation
General surgery
Vascular endothelial growth factor
Endocrinology
Medicine
Body weight
Internal medicine
Angiogenesis
living related liver transplantation
tri iodothyronine
Diabetes mellitus

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