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Effect of bile duct ligation on bile acid composition in mouse serum and liver

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Cholestatic liver diseases can be caused by genetic defects, drug toxicities, hepatobiliary malignancies or obstruction of the biliary tract, and information on which bile acids are actually accumulating during cholestasis is limited.
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Background Cholestatic liver diseases can be caused by genetic defects, drug toxicities, hepatobiliary malignancies or obstruction of the biliary tract. Cholestasis leads to accumulation of bile acids (BAs) in hepatocytes. Direct toxicity of BAs is currently the most accepted hypothesis for cholestatic liver injury. However, information on which bile acids are actually accumulating during cholestasis is limited.

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Xenobiotic, Bile Acid, and Cholesterol Transporters: Function and Regulation

TL;DR: A comprehensive overview of transporters of the solute carrier family (SLC) is provided with regard to tissue distribution, subcellular localization, and substrate preferences.
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Bile-acid-induced cell injury and protection

TL;DR: The major beneficial effects of treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid are protection against cytotoxicity due to more toxic BAs; the stimulation of hepatobiliary secretion; antioxidant activity, due in part to an enhancement in glutathione levels; and the inhibition of liver cell apoptosis.
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Toxic bile salts induce rodent hepatocyte apoptosis via direct activation of Fas

TL;DR: Data suggest that GCDC-induced hepatocyte apoptosis involves ligand-independent oligomerization of Fas, recruitment of FADD, activation of caspase 8, and subsequent activation of effector proteases, including downstream caspases and cathepsin B.
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The rat canalicular conjugate export pump (Mrp2) is down-regulated in intrahepatic and obstructive cholestasis

TL;DR: Down-regulation of Mrp2 expression may explain impaired biliary excretion of amphiphilic anionic conjugates in these models of cholestasis.
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Bile Acids Induce Inflammatory Genes in Hepatocytes: A Novel Mechanism of Inflammation during Obstructive Cholestasis

TL;DR: The data demonstrate that Toll-like receptor 4 is not required for the initiation of acute inflammation during cholestasis, and bile acids directly activate a signaling network in hepatocytes that promotes hepatic inflammation during Cholestatic inflammation.
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