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In contrast, basolateral secretion of TNF-α could lead to a focal accumulation of TNF-α in the sub-mucosa of biliary tissue.
Bile in the biliary ducts and the gallbladder often contains bacteria and the bacterial product lipopolysaccharide (LPS).
Our own institutional data have shown that previously drained patients with tumors causing proximal or distal obstruction of the biliary tree who undergo surgical resection or surgical bypass suffer increased intraoperative blood loss [ 12], as well as increased postoperative infectious complications [ 13, 14, 15, 16].
While the biliary epithelium can act as a physical barrier to limit bacterial infection of the underlying tissue [ 16 ] , its physiological response to bacteria and bacterial products is not well characterized.
Bacteria are found in the bile of the gallbladder and bile ducts [ 15 16 ] , the presence of which may have relevance to clinical diseases such as stone formation [ 19 20 21 ] , primary sclerosing cholangitis [ 22 ] , and cholestasis [ 23 24 ] . Direct exposure of sub-epithelial tissue to LPS from gram-negative bacteria causes release of cytokines by resident leukocytes and activation of macrophages [ 25 ] . The biliary fluid of patients with cholangitis has increased concentrations of the inflammatory cytokines TNF-α and IL-6 suggesting that bacterial infection leads to an increase in cytokines released into the bile [ 26 ] . Adding LPS to the bile of guinea pig gallbladders in vivo led to increased IL-1 concentration in the bile [ 27 ] . What role biliary epithelial cells play in the response to bacteria in bile is not known.
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