“…As the basolateral OATPs show overlapping substrate specificity with the canalicular bilirubin conjugate efflux transporter MRP2 (Suzuki and Sugiyama, 1999), it is not surprising that we also find inhibition of MRP2-mediated transport by silibinin. Although MRP2 has been reported to play an important role in the excretion of silibinin conjugates, but not of silibinin itself, in rats (Miranda et al, 2008), data about the interaction of silibinin with efflux transporters, belonging to the ABC family, focused on P-glycoprotein (MDR1) (Zhang and Morris, 2003a,b;Wu et al, 2008), Mrp1 (Nguyen et al, 2003;Łania-Pietrzak et al, 2005;Wu et al, 2005), Mrp4 (Wu et al, 2005), and Mrp5 (Wu et al, 2005).…”