It is fascinating that the one organ that has the ability to regenerate in humans and
become its original tissue-weight ratio is the liver. For a long time, I have wondered why this could be so.
I pondered whether the mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the sinusoids could be the reason as oxygen should be regarded as a toxic molecule but is indispensable to aerobic life: the embryo develops at lower partial pressures perhaps for this reason... [read more below]
I pondered whether the mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood in the sinusoids could be the reason as oxygen should be regarded as a toxic molecule but is indispensable to aerobic life: the embryo develops at lower partial pressures perhaps for this reason... [read more below]