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Bicarbonate Transport in Cystic Fibrosis and Pancreatitis.
Cells - 24 Dec 2021
Angyal Dora, Bijvelds Marcel J C, Bruno Marco J, Peppelenbosch Maikel P, de Jonge Hugo R
Abstract excerpt
CFTR, the cystic fibrosis (CF) gene-encoded epithelial anion channel, has a prominent role in driving chloride, bicarbonate and fluid secretion in the ductal cells of the exocrine pancreas. Whereas severe mutations in CFTR cause fibrosis of the pancreas in utero, CFTR mutants with residual function, or CFTR variants with a normal chloride but defective bicarbonate permeability (CFTRBD), are associated with an...
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