Prolonged orocecal transit time enhances serum bile acids through bacterial overgrowth, contributing factor to gallstone disease

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 365-369

  Kaur, Jaspreet ^a   Rana, Satya V ^a   Gupta, Rajesh ^a   Gupta, Vikas ^a   Sharma, Surendra K ^a   Dhawan, Devinder K ^b  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b PANJAB UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

gallstone disease; orocecal transit time; serum bile acids; small intestinal bacterial overgrowth

Indexed keywords

BILE ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL OVERGROWTH; BILE ACID BLOOD LEVEL; BREATH ANALYSIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYMATIC ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTESTINE TRANSIT TIME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROCECAL TRANSIT TIME; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BILE ACIDS AND SALTS; BREATH TESTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84896266521     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: 15392031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e3182a14fba     Document Type: Article

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