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BigTTYGothGF 49 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?

> Your liver makes platelets

Megakaryocytes are primarily bone marrow cells.

leereeves 49 days ago [–]

Indeed, but your liver does make clotting factors and also thrombopoietin, which stimulates platelet production.

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