Oxidative Stress in Nonautoimmune Biliary Diseases

摘要: The diseases primarily affecting the biliary epithelium are collectively termed as cholangiopathies. They comprise a wide group of liver pathologies, most often characterized by chronic progressive and disabling clinical course. Depending upon nature primary insult, cholangiopathies can be categorized drug-induced, idiopathic, immunomediated, infectious, inherited/genetic, ischemic, tumoral (Table 13.1). Unfortunately, pathogenetic mechanisms underlying progression these still uncertain.