Your liver grows as you age, though certain health conditions, including acute hepatitis and fatty liver disease, can cause an enlarged liver. A large liver doesn’t always cause symptoms.

Anatomy is the field of biology that studies the structure of living things. Anatomy focuses on the composition, structure and location of the parts of organisms tissues, organs and systems ...

One class of drugs that is frequently used in a nebulized form is the opioids. The mechanism of action of nebulized opioids is uncertain, but it is thought that the opioids either act on receptors ...

Liver diseases are any diseases that affect the functioning of the liver. Liver diseases can be inherited (such as Wilson disease and alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency) or acquired (for example ...

Here, we show a specific part of the zebrafish embryonic vasculature displays functional homology to the mammalian liver sinusoid and includes macrophages/monocytes and functional SECs. Using this ...