Further studies are needed on the GH receptor and the T4 uptake in the hepatic cell to identify the common point where the dwarf gene could act.
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The chronic sufferer often does not look nor feel ill-- although some complain of tiring easily-- but the virus is now firmly entrenched in the liver and is slowly but surely destroying the hepatic cells.
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At around four to six months of age, the internal iron supplies of the infant, held in the hepatic cells of the liver, are exhausted, hence this is the time that complementary feeding is introduced.
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Hepatic cell is freely permeable to glucose, and the initial rate of phosphorylation of glucose is the rate-limiting step in glucose metabolism by the liver ( ATP-D-glucose 6-phosphotransferase ) and non-specific hexokinase ( ATP-D-hexose 6-phosphotransferase ).
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This response is considered cellular regeneration ( a form of compensatory hypertrophy ) where the function and mass of the liver is regenerated through the proliferation of existing mature hepatic cells ( mainly hepatocytes ), but the exact morphology of the liver is not regained.
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From 1989 to 1999, eleven volunteers recruited from the United States Public Health Service, United States Army, and United States Navy were immunized against Plasmodium falciparum by the bites of 1001 to 2927 mosquitos that had been irradiated with 15, 000 attenuate the malaria parasites so that while they could still enter hepatic cells, they could not develop into schizonts or infect red blood cells.
