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Bile salt export pump (BSEP/ABCB11): trafficking and sorting disturbances.
Current molecular pharmacology - 1 Jul 2013
Hayashi Hisamitsu, Sugiyama Yuichi
Abstract excerpt
Bile salt export pump (BSEP/ABCB11), a member of the family of ATP-binding cassette transporters, is localized on the canalicular membrane of hepatocytes and mediates the efficient biliary excretion of bile acid. The secretion of bile acid into bile by BSEP provides the primary osmotic driving force for bile flow generation. Intrahepatic cholestasis resulting from dysfunction of BSEP can be caused by a mutation...
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