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ReviewSeminars in liver disease2020

Art of Making Artificial Liver: Depicting Human Liver Biology and Diseases in Mice.

Go Sugahara, Yuji Ishida, Jeffrey Sun, Chise Tateno, Takeshi Saito

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In one paragraph

Review in Seminars in liver disease, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 32 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. A novel subset of hepatocytes is simultaneously gluconeogenic andbioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  6. Novel AAV variants with improved tropism for human Schwann cells.Molecular therapy. Methods & clinical development · 2024
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  14. Long-term cell fate and functional maintenance of human hepatocyte through stepwise culture configuration.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2023
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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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Go SugaharaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Yuji IshidaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Jeffrey SunDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Chise TatenoResearch & Development Department, PhoenixBio, Co., Ltd, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
Takeshi SaitoDepartment of Medicine, Division of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
University of Southern California · USPhoenixBio (Japan) · JP

Funding

Innate Defense Program against HCVR01DK101773 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SAITO, TAKESHI · 2015 to 2019
$1.9M
Impact of Occult Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Progression of Liver DiseasesR21AI139954 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SAITO, TAKESHI · 2018 to 2019
$454k
Retinoid regulation of hepatic innate immunity.R21AA022751 · NIAAA · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI SAITO, TAKESHI · 2014 to 2015
$427k
NIAAA NIH HHS R21 AA022751NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI139954NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK101773R21AA022751 NIH NIAAAR21AI139954 NIH NIAIDRO1DK101773 NIH NIDDK
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advancement in both bioengineering and cell biology of the liver led to the establishment of the first-generation humanized liver chimeric mouse (HLCM) model in 2001. The HLCM system was initially developed to satisfy the necessity for a convenient and physiologically representative small animal model for studies of hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus infection. Over the last two decades, the HLCM system has substantially evolved in quality, production capacity, and utility, thereby growing its versatility beyond the study of viral hepatitis. Hence, it has been increasingly employed for a variety of applications including, but not limited to, the investigation of drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics and stem cell biology. To date, more than a dozen distinctive HLCM systems have been established, and each model system has similarities as well as unique characteristics, which are often perplexing for end-users. Thus, this review aims to summarize the history, evolution, advantages, and pitfalls of each model system with the goal of providing comprehensive information that is necessary for researchers to implement the ideal HLCM system for their purposes. Furthermore, this review article summarizes the contribution of HLCM and its derivatives to our mechanistic understanding of various human liver diseases, its potential for novel applications, and its current limitations.

Indexed as

Disease Models, AnimalLiver, ArtificialAnimalsHumansLiver DiseasesMice

Identifiers

PMID32074631
PMCPMC8629128
OpenAlexW3007926640

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Registered trials

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