James Lorenzen Boyer MD

Ensign Professor of Medicine (Digestive Diseases); Emeritus Director, Yale Liver Center

Departments & Organizations

Yale Medical Group

Internal Medicine: Digestive Diseases: Hepatology: Liver Center | Gastrointestinal Procedure Center

Research Interests

Membrane transport; bile formation; cholestasis; nuclear receptors; bile acids; membrane targeting; jaundice; autoimmune hepatitis; primary biliary cirrhosis; sclerosing cholangitis; hepatic drug toxicity more...

Education

• M.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1962

Selected Publications

• Soroka CJ, Velazquez H, Mennone A, Ballatori N, Boyer JL Osta depletion protects liver from oral bile acid load.Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol. 2011 Sep;301(3):G574-9. PMID:21719738
• Lam P, Xu S, Soroka CJ, Boyer JL A c-terminal tyrosine-based motif in the bile salt export pump directs clathrin-dependent endocytosis. Hepatology. 2011 Dec 12. doi: 10.1002/hep.25523. [Epub ahead of print]PMID: 221615771
• Padda, MS, Sanchez M, Akhtar AJ and Boyer JL. Drug Induced Cholestasis. Hepatology. 53(4): 1377 – 1387, 2011. PMCID: PMC3089004

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