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Expression of a mutant ER-retained polytope membrane protein in cultured rat hepatocytes results in Mallory body formation.
Histochemistry and cell biology - 1 Jan 2002
Hirano Kiyoko, Roth Jürgen, Zuber Christian, Ziak Martin
Abstract excerpt
Mallory bodies represent cytokeratin-rich inclusion bodies which occur characteristically but not exclusively in human alcoholic liver disease and experimentally in mice during chronic intoxication with drugs. We report the first in vitro cell system of Mallory body induction. In clone 9 rat hepatocytes stably transfected to express an ER-retained T126M-aquaporin-2 (AQP2), on the mean 40% of the cells contained...
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