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Thomas Jefferson University

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

2018

Liver regeneration

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Cellular Network Modeling And Single Cell Gene Expression Analysis Reveals Novel Hepatic Stellate Cell Phenotypes Controlling Liver Regeneration Dynamics, Daniel Cook, Sirisha Achanta, Jan B. Hoek, Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli Oct 2018

Cellular Network Modeling And Single Cell Gene Expression Analysis Reveals Novel Hepatic Stellate Cell Phenotypes Controlling Liver Regeneration Dynamics, Daniel Cook, Sirisha Achanta, Jan B. Hoek, Babatunde A. Ogunnaike, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Background: Recent results from single cell gene and protein regulation studies are starting to uncover the previously underappreciated fact that individual cells within a population exhibit high variability in the expression of mRNA and proteins (i.e., molecular variability). By combining cellular network modeling, and high-throughput gene expression measurements in single cells, we seek to reconcile the high molecular variability in single cells with the relatively low variability in tissue-scale gene and protein expression and the highly coordinated functional responses of tissues to physiological challenges. In this study, we focus on relating the dynamic changes in distributions of hepatic stellate cell …


Modeling The Dynamics Of Human Liver Failure Post Liver Resection, Babita Verma, Pushpavanam Subramaniam, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli Aug 2018

Modeling The Dynamics Of Human Liver Failure Post Liver Resection, Babita Verma, Pushpavanam Subramaniam, Rajanikanth Vadigepalli

Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology Faculty Papers

Liver resection is an important clinical intervention to treat liver disease. Following liver resection, patients exhibit a wide range of outcomes including normal recovery, suppressed recovery, or liver failure, depending on the regenerative capacity of the remnant liver. The objective of this work is to study the distinct patient outcomes post hepatectomy and determine the processes that are accountable for liver failure. Our model based approach shows that cell death is one of the important processes but not the sole controlling process responsible for liver failure. Additionally, our simulations showed wide variation in the timescale of liver failure that is …