Maturity of associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy-derived liver regeneration in a rat model

Figure 2 The role of hepatic progenitor cell in ALPPS. A: The schematic of differentiation from hepatic progenitor cell to mature hepatocyte; B: Representative image (400 ×) of HE stain of each group at day 2 and 5, respectively; C: Relative mRNA expression of hepatic progenitor cell markers of each group; D: Immunofluorescence for expression of Sox9 in different groups. ^aP < 0.05, ^bP < 0.01, ^cP < 0.001.