Hepatocellular Bile Salt Transport: Lessons from Cholestasis

Hepatic uptake and excretion of bile salts and several nonbile salt organic anions (eg, bilirubin) are mediated by a distinct set of polarized transport systems at the basolateral and apical plasma membrane domains of hepatocytes and bile duct epithelial cells (cholangiocytes). With the increasing a...

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Main Authors: Michael Trauner, Peter Fickert, Rudolf E Stauber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2000-01-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2000/870929