Increased activity in the biliary Con A-binding fraction accounts for the difference in crystallization behavior in bile from Chilean gallstone patients compared with Dutch gallstone patients

Hepatology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 328-332

  Miquel, Juan Francisco ^a   van der Putten, Joris ^a   Pimentel, Fernando ^a   Mok, Kam S ^b   Groen, Albert K ^b  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CONCANAVALIN A; HAPTOGLOBIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; OROSOMUCOID; SEPHAROSE;

ARTICLE; BILE; CHILE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLESTEROL STONE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; GALLSTONE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; LIPID COMPOSITION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0035144130     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/jhep.2001.21550     Document Type: Article

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