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hepatic development

Fetal portal space 25 weeks Fetal portal space 25 weeks

Developmental structures

- ductal plates

Pathology

- hepatic malformations
- anomalies of hepatic development

  • ductal plate malformation

References

- Lemaigre F, Zaret KS. Liver development update: new embryo models, cell lineage control, and morphogenesis. Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2004 Oct;14(5):582-90. PMID: 15380251

- Zaret KS. Regulatory phases of early liver development: paradigms of organogenesis. Nat Rev Genet. 2002 Jul;3(7):499-512. PMID: 12094228