New insights in understanding biliary atresia from the perspectives on maternal microchimerism

• Main Authors: Toshihiro Muraji (Author), Ryuta Masuya (Author), Toshio Harumatsu (Author), Takafumi Kawano (Author), Mitsuru Muto (Author), Satoshi Ieiri (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Biliary atresia (BA) is a fibroinflammatory cholangiopathy and portal venopathy. It is of unknown etiology and is associated with systemic immune dysregulation, in which the first insult begins before birth. Maternal microchimerism is a naturally occurring phenomenon during fetal life in which mater...