Complete mapping of crystallization pathways during cholesterol precipitation from model bile: Influence of physical-chemical variables of pathophysiologic relevance and identification of a stable liquid crystalline state in cold, dilute and hydrophilic bile salt-containing systems

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 606-630

  Wang, David Q H ^a   Carey, Martin C ^a,b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium; Crystal density; Crystal habits; Gallstones; Lecithin; Liquid crystals; Microscopy; Phase diagrams; Phospholipid; Quasi elastic light scattering

Indexed keywords

BILE SALT; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GALLSTONE FORMATION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MICELLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

BILE; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; CALCIUM; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLIC ACIDS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIGHT; LIPIDS; MICELLES; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINES; PRECIPITATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0029958885     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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