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ReviewPhysiological reviews2010

Hepatocyte death: a clear and present danger.

Harmeet Malhi, Maria Eugenia Guicciardi, Gregory J Gores

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Review in Physiological reviews, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 211 papers.

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211citing papers in PubMed
12.0field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

211 citing papers in PubMed, 468 citations in OpenAlex.

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  18. Sinusoidal communication in chronic liver disease.Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2025
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151 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Harmeet MalhiDivision of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, USA.
Maria Eugenia Guicciardi
Gregory J Gores
Mayo Clinic · US

Funding

MULTIDISCRIPLINARY TRAINING IN DIGESTIVE DISEASEST32DK007198 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI Harmeet Malhi · 1986 to 2026
$8.9M
Organelle Dysfunction and Apoptosis in Liver EpitheliaR01DK063947 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI GORES, GREGORY J. · 2003 to 2016
$4.1M
MECHANISMS OF LIVER CELL INJURYR01DK041876 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI GORES, GREGORY J. · 1992 to 2019
$3.6M
MECHANISMS OF LIVER CELL INJURYR37DK041876 · NIDDK · MAYO CLINIC ROCHESTER · PI GORES, GREGORY J. · 2000 to 2009
$2.9M
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK041876NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK063947NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK-41876NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK-63947NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK041876NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK007198NIDDK NIH HHS T32 DK-07198-34
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The hepatocyte is especially vulnerable to injury due to its central role in xenobiotic metabolism including drugs and alcohol, participation in lipid and fatty acid metabolism, its unique role in the enterohepatic circulation of bile acids, the widespread prevalence of hepatotropic viruses, and its existence within a milieu of innate immune responding cells. Apoptosis and necrosis are the most widely recognized forms of hepatocyte cell death. The hepatocyte displays many unique features regarding cell death by apoptosis. It is quite susceptible to death receptor-mediated injury, and its death receptor signaling pathways involve the mitochondrial pathway for efficient cell killing. Also, death receptors can trigger lysosomal disruption in hepatocytes which further promote cell and tissue injury. Interestingly, hepatocytes are protected from cell death by only two anti-apoptotic proteins, Bcl-x(L) and Mcl-1, which have nonredundant functions. Endoplasmic reticulum stress or the unfolded protein response contributes to hepatocyte cell death during alterations of lipid and fatty acid metabolism. Finally, the current information implicating RIP kinases in necrosis provides an approach to more fully address this mode of cell death in hepatocyte injury. All of these processes contributing to hepatocyte injury are discussed in the context of potential therapeutic strategies.

Indexed as

HepatocytesAnimalsApoptosisApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsAutophagyEndoplasmic ReticulumHumansLiver DiseasesMitochondriaNecrosisReceptors, Death DomainSignal TransductionStress, PhysiologicalUnfolded Protein ResponseApoptosis Regulatory ProteinsReceptors, Death Domain

Identifiers

PMID20664081
PMCPMC2943859
OpenAlexW2004981017

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