Genetic lesions of bilirubin uridine-dip
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Ajit Kadakol; Siddhartha S. Ghosh; Baljit S. Sappal; Girish Sharma; Jayanta Roy
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Article
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2000
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Uridine-diphosphoglucuronate glucuronosyltransferases (UGTs) are a family of enzymes that conjugate various endogenous and exogenous compounds with glucuronic acid and facilitate their excretion in the bile. Bilirubin-UGT(1) (UGT1A1) is the only isoform that significantly contributes to the conjugat