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Type-I but not type-II interferon receptor knockout mice are susceptible to biliary atresia.
Pediatric research - 1 Jun 2006
Kuebler Joachim F, Czech-Schmidt Gerard, Leonhardt Johannes, Ure Benno M, Petersen Claus
Abstract excerpt
The etiology of biliary atresia (BA) is not yet understood, but recent studies have shown inflammation with an up-regulated interferon (IFN) activity in the intra- and extrahepatic bile ducts of patients with BA. These findings support an inflammatory/infectious cause of BA as mimicked in our infective murine model. To study the role of the IFN receptors in our model, we used mice with inactivated INF-alpha/beta...
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