Starzl T E
Transplant Proc. 1980 Dec;12(4):626-33.
Apart from its own intrinsic importance, liver transplantation has been the stimulus for development of better techniques of hepatic surgery and for a better understanding of hepatic physiology. A particularly important off-shoot of transplantation has been the recognition that factors (called hepatotrophic) are present in the portal blood. The nature of these factors and their influence on the liver have been discussed, as well as the clinical implications of the hepatotrophic concept.
除了其自身固有的重要性外，肝移植还推动了更好的肝脏手术技术的发展，以及对肝脏生理学的更深入理解。移植的一个特别重要的附带成果是认识到门静脉血中存在一些因子（称为肝营养因子）。本文讨论了这些因子的性质及其对肝脏的影响，以及肝营养概念的临床意义。
