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Cells from the biliary compartment (portal ductules and canals of Herring) transform into oval cells and these become hepatocytes when proliferation of hepatocytes is inhibited during regeneration. Periportal hepatocytes can also convert to biliary cells when there is injury to biliary cells but their capacity for self-repair is inhibited. Hepatocytes and biliary cells are facultative stem cells for each other.
