GARLA (Gross Anatomy, Radiology, Living Anatomy) is one of the components of the Structure block that stretches longitudinally across the first two years of medical education at Case Western Reserve ...

Your liver is your body’s largest solid organ. It is vital to the body’s metabolic functions and immune system. Without a functioning liver, a person cannot survive. The liver is a half-moon-shaped ...

The liver hilum, which some people know as the porta hepatis or hilum of the liver, is a fissure or opening between two sections, or lobes, of the liver. The liver hilum allows structures including ...

Using human liver samples and a mouse model of cirrhosis, researchers identified epigenetic overactivation of the inflammatory PAF–PAF-R pathway in hepatic macrophages as a key driver of liver damage.