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PubMed ID
Public Release Type
Journal
Publication Year
2013
Affiliation
Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Authors
Friedman JR, Hand NJ, Karjoo S, Loarca L, Russo PA, Wells RG
Studies
Citation
Karjoo S, Hand NJ, Loarca L, Russo PA, Friedman JR, Wells RG. Extrahepatic cholangiocyte cilia are abnormal in biliary atresia. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 2013 Jul;57(1):96-101.

Abstract

Biliary atresia (BA) is a rapidly progressive form of biliary fibrosis affecting neonates. We previously reported that primary cilia on the intrahepatic cholangiocytes of patients with both syndromic and nonsyndromic BA were structurally abnormal. Our objective was to determine whether extrahepatic cholangiocytes in human biliary atresia, intrahepatic and extrahepatic cholangiocytes of rhesus rotavirus (RRV)-infected neonatal mice, and RRV-infected primary neonatal extrahepatic cholangiocytes also demonstrate ciliary abnormalities.