A paper in Science Signaling last week (April 20) reports that the liver and lungs of rats produce more TNF than the spleen does, but the spleen remains the master regulator, of the liver at least, ...

Medically reviewed by Benjamin Leach, MD Spherocytosis, otherwise known as hereditary spherocytosis, is an inherited blood disorder that causes red blood cells to become sphere-shaped (spherocytes) ...

It primarily affects the spleen, liver, and bone marrow but does not impact the nervous system. Symptoms include enlargement of the spleen (splenomegaly) and liver (hepatomegaly), bone pain or ...

This is a genetic desease involving cirrhosis of the liver (progressive destruction ... Kerasin is stored in the spleen and causes its enlargement, as well as enlargement of lymph nodes.

In the cases recorded, the glands were palpably enlarged, and the concavity ... but no patient had a palpable spleen. In 7 cases in which liver tissue was obtained, histologic changes of fatty ...