Critical tables for calculating the cholesterol saturation of native bile.

A simple method for the rigorous derivation of lithogenic index or percent cholesterol saturation, embodying both relative and total lipid concentrations, is described. We recently demonstrated that under physiological conditions only two key physical-chemical variables, the bile salt-lecithin ratio...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: M C Carey
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1978-11-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520406777