Article
Parathyroid hormone-related peptide is expressed and rapidly inducible in human liver cell cultures that have a bile duct phenotype.
Journal of hepatology - 1 Aug 1995
Roskams T, Moshage H, Depla E, Willems M, Desmet V, Yap P
Abstract excerpt
Parathyroid hormone-related peptide is the major factor responsible for hypercalcemia of malignancy. There is increasing evidence that parathyroid hormone-related peptide also plays an important role in the growth and differentiation of both neoplastic and non-neoplastic cells. Recently we found that reactive human bile ductules and cholangiocarcinomas, but not normal bile ducts, human hepatocytes nor...
Topics
- Bile Ducts
- Cell Division
- Cell Line
- Epithelial Cells
- Epithelium
- Gene Expression
- Humans
- Keratins
- Parathyroid Hormone
- Parathyroid Hormone-Related Protein
- Phenotype
