Imaging supramolecular aggregates in bile models and human bile

Microscopy Research and Technique

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 85-96

  Kaplun, Alon ^a   Konikoff, Fred M ^b   Eitan, Arie ^c   Rubin, Moshe ^d   Vilan, Ayelet ^a   Lichtenberg, Dov ^e   Gilat, Tuvia ^b   Talmon, Yeshayahu ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Nahariya Hospital Israel   (Israel)

^d RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bile; Cholesterol; Cryo TEM; Crystallization; Gallstone formation; Micelle; Vesicle

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; BODY FLUIDS; CHOLESTEROL; HIGH RESOLUTION TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BILE; CLASSICAL PLATES; CRYO-TEM; DIFFERENT SHAPES; DIFFERENT SIZES; GALLSTONE FORMATION; HUMAN BILE; MODELLING SYSTEMS; SUPRAMOLECULAR AGGREGATES; VESICLE;

MICELLES;

BILE ACID; CHOLESTEROL; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; TAUROCHOLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; BILE SECRETION; CHOLELITHIASIS; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GALLBLADDER; GALLSTONE; GALLSTONE FORMATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 0030984147     PISSN: 1059910X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0029(19971001)39:1<85::AID-JEMT7>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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