Muchatuta's "Structural and Functional Analysis of Liver Cysts from the BALB/c-cpk Mouse Model of PKD" 2009

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[edit] Abstract

  • Liver bile duct cysts occur in ADPKD and ARPKD.
  • They used light and electron microscopy to examine the ductal epithelial cells in wildtype, diseased-pre-cyst, and disease-cyst mouse models.
  • They found fibrosis and shortened primary cilia in the diseased states (expression of the mutated cpk gene).
  • They showed that ENaC was either absent or inactive in the diseased cells.


  • See lecture notes for the rest as the paper is long.
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