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Mutations in bile salt export pump (ABCB11) in two children with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis and cholangiocarcinoma.
The Journal of pediatrics - 1 May 2007
Scheimann A O, Strautnieks S S, Knisely A S, Byrne J A, Thompson R J, Finegold M J
Abstract excerpt
Fatal peripheral cholangiocarcinoma developed in 2 girls with progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis, ABCB11 mutations, and absent bile salt export pump (BSEP) expression. BSEP deficiency may cause cholangiocarcinoma through bile-composition shifts or bile-acid damage within cells capable of hepatocytic/cholangiocytic differentiation. This observation suggests the need for hepatobiliary-malignancy...
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