Parathyroid hormone-related peptide is expressed and rapidly inducible in human liver cell cultures that have a bile duct phenotype.

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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...

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