Article
Defective biliary excretion of epinephrine metabolites in mutant (TR-) rats: relation to the pathogenesis of black liver in the Dubin-Johnson syndrome and Corriedale sheep with an analogous excretory defect.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Jun 1992
Kitamura T, Alroy J, Gatmaitan Z, Inoue M, Mikami T, Jansen P, Arias I M
Abstract excerpt
Dubin-Johnson patients, mutant Corriedale sheep and TR- and EHBR mutant rats have recessively inherited defective bile canalicular secretion of many nonbile acid organic anions. The human and ovine mutants have black livers and lysosomal pigment accumulation. The livers in TR- and EHBR mutant rats are not black, and sparse lysosomal pigment accumulation is seen. Previously, we postulated that the unidentified...
Topics
- Animals
- Anions
- Bile
- Epinephrine
- Female
- Food, Formulated
- Humans
- Jaundice, Chronic Idiopathic
- Liver
- Lysosomes
- Male
