Primary and malignant cholangiocytes undergo CD40 mediated Fas dependent apoptosis, but are insensitive to direct activation with exogenous Fas ligand.

Although the results for the CC-LP-1 cell line failed to reach statistical significance (when compared to β-actin controls) the trend was the same as the other two cell lines and the primary cells ( figure 2 ).

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