Multiscale reconstruction of various vessels in the intact murine liver lobe
Qi Zhang, Anan Li, Siqi Chen, Jing Yuan, Tao Jiang, Xiangning Li, Qingming Luo, Zhao Feng, Hui Gong
Abstract
The liver contains a variety of vessels and participates in miscellaneous physiological functions. While past studies generally focused on certain hepatic vessels, we simultaneously obtained all the vessels and cytoarchitectural information of the intact mouse liver lobe at single-cell resolution. Here, taking structural discrepancies of various vessels into account, we reconstruct and visualize the portal vein, hepatic vein, hepatic artery, intrahepatic bile duct, intrahepatic lymph of an intact liver lobe and peribiliary plexus in its selected local areas, providing a technology roadmap for studying the fine hepatic vascular structures and their spatial relationship, which will help research into liver diseases and evaluation of medical efficacies in the future.