Small epithelial cells in human liver cirrhosis exhibit features of hepatic stem‐like cells: immunohistochemical, electron microscopic and immunoelectron microscopic findings

Abstract

SEC that exhibit morphological and immunophenotypical features of the SEC seen in certain other liver diseases are found in cirrhosis. These findings further support the hypothesis that a bipotent hepatic stem cell that may give rise to biliary epithelial cells and hepatocytes exists in the human liver.