Movement of hepatocytes along the hepatic trabecula during physiological regeneration

The distribution of mitoses among hepatocytes and of dying cells along the hepatic trabecula was determined in rats. The relative rate of movement of the hepatocytes along the trabecular was calculated from these distributions. The direction and velocity of movement of the hepatocytes along the hepatic trabecula were obtained by recording the shift of the peak of labeled cells one month after giving the rats six injections of thymidine-³H.Laboratory of Pathology Induced by Alimentary Factors, Institute of Nutrition, Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR, Moscow. (Presented by Academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the USSR A. P. Avtsyn.) Translated from Byulleten' Éksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 214–216, February, 1977.