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PedAM

Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease primary biliary cirrhosis
Phenotype C0008370|cholestasis
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PubMedID- 25688837 Our findings suggest that bile canalicular lumen expansion might explain the presence of cholestasis in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis.
PubMedID- 23311897 This is in line with previous data since cholestasis in cases of primary biliary cirrhosis or progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis is associated with reduced oatp1b1 and oatp1b3 expression [12] and the concerted down-regulation of both bile salt uptake transporters is considered as a protective mechanism against hepatocellular injury caused by cytotoxic bile acids.

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