From lipid secretion to cholesterol crystallization in bile. Relevance in cholesterol gallstone disease
Failure of cholesterol homeostasis in the body can lead to cholesterol gallstone disease, the most common and costly gastrointestinal disease. The primum movens in cholesterol gallstone formation is the hypersecretion of hepatic cholesterol; this condition leads to bile chronically surpersaturated w...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2002-07-01
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| Series: | Annals of Hepatology |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268119321702 |