Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 245-252 , April 2010

Recent advances in the regulation of cholangiocyte proliferation and function during extrahepatic cholestasis

  • Shannon S. Glaser

      Affiliations

    • Digestive Disease Research Center, Scott & White, TX, United States
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Digestive Disease Research Center, Texas A&M Health Science Center, 702 SW H.K. Dodgen Loop, Temple, TX 76504, United States. Tel.: +1 254 742 7058; fax: +1 254 724 5944.
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  • Paolo Onori

      Affiliations

    • Department of Experimental Medicine, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
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  • Candace Wise

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States
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  • Fuguan Yang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States
    • Shengjing Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang City, Liaoning Province, China
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  • Marco Marzioni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Gastroenterology, Universita’ Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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  • Domenico Alvaro

      Affiliations

    • Gastroenterology, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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  • Antonio Franchitto

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Anatomy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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  • Romina Mancinelli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Anatomy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
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  • Gianfranco Alpini

      Affiliations

    • Digestive Disease Research Center, Scott & White, TX, United States
    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States
    • Central Texas Veterans Health Care System, Temple, TX, United States
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  • Md. Kamruzzaman Munshi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Scott & White and Texas A&M Health Science Center, College of Medicine, Temple, TX, United States
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  • Eugenio Gaudio

      Affiliations

    • Department of Human Anatomy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Human Anatomy, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Via Alfonso Borelli 50 00161 Rome, Rome 00161, Italy. Tel.: +39 06 4991 8060; fax: +39 06 4991 8062.

Received 8 January 2010 ,Accepted 8 January 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.dld.2010.01.008

Digestive and Liver Disease
Volume 42, Issue 4 , Pages 245-252 , April 2010

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