Hepatocellular Bile Salt Transport: Lessons from Cholestasis by Michael Trauner, Peter Fickert, Rudolf E Stauber

“…Hepatic uptake and excretion of bile salts and several nonbile salt organic anions (eg, bilirubin) are mediated by a distinct set of polarized transport systems at the basolateral and apical plasma membrane domains of hepatocytes and bile duct epithelial cells (cholangiocytes). …”
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Mutational Analysis of a Familial Adenomatous Polyposis Pedigree with Bile Duct Polyp Phenotype by Li-jun Xie, Dan-dan Ruan, Jian-hui Zhang, Yi Li, Li Chen, Mao-lin Yan, Ming-dian Yu, Jie-wei Luo, Hui-zhen Zhang

“…Different mutation sites in APC are associated with the severity of FAP, risks of carcinogenesis, and extraintestinal manifestations. …”
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Dissecting the role of single nucleotide polymorphism of lymphotoxin beta gene during pig domestication using bioinformatic and experimental approaches by R. B. Aitnazarov, E. V. Ignatieva, N. E. Bazarova, V. G. Levitsky, S. P. Knyazev, Y. Gon, N. S. Yudin

“…Context analysis shows that allele A has putative binding sites for  transcription factors BRN-2 and AP-1, whereas allele G has binding sites for transcription factors RFX1, ISGF3 (site ISRE), and USF expressed in cells of the immune system. …”
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