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Congenital jaundice in rats with a mutation in a multidrug resistance-associated protein gene.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 23 Feb 1996
Paulusma C C, Bosma P J, Zaman G J, Bakker C T, Otter M, Scheffer G L, Scheper R J, Borst P, Oude Elferink R P
Abstract excerpt
The human Dubin-Johnson syndrome and its animal model, the TR(-) rat, are characterized by a chronic conjugated hyperbilirubinemia. TR(-) rats are defective in the canalicular multispecific organic anion transporter (cMOAT), which mediates hepatobiliary excretion of numerous organic anions. The complementary DNA for rat cmoat, a homolog of the human multidrug resistance gene (hMRP1), was isolated and shown to be...
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