Aquaporins in the hepatobiliary system
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Anatoliy I. Masyuk; Nicholas F. LaRusso
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## **The review focuses on the potential physiological and pathophysiological roles of aquaporins (AQPs), a family of water channel proteins, in the hepatobiliary system. Among 13 aquaporins (AQP0-AQP12) cloned in mammals, seven AQPs have been identified in the liver and biliary tree. Accumulating