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. 1972 Jun;51(6):1337–1350. doi: 10.1172/JCI106930

Biliary excretion of lecithin and cholesterol in the dog

Henry O Wheeler 1, Katherine K King 1
PMCID: PMC292271  PMID: 5024035

Abstract

The biliary excretion rates of bile acid, lecithin, and cholesterol were measured in unanesthetized dogs after interruption of enterohepatic circulation and during infusions of sodium taurocholate, sodium glycocholate, sodium dehydrocholate, SC2644 (a bicyclic organic acid with high choleretic potency), and secretin. Both lecithin output and cholesterol output were directly related to bile acid excretion rate. The curves describing these relationships were concave downward. Molar concentration ratios of lecithin-to-bile acid declined gradually from approximately 0.4 to 0.2 as bile acid output increased from approximately 1 to 70 μmoles/min. Cholesterol-to-lecithin molar ratios were highest (0.05-0.15) at very low rates of bile acid excretion, but descended rapidly to a plateau (0.03-0.04) which was constant over the entire range of bile acid excretion rates from 10 to 70 μmoles/min.

Similar lipid excretion patterns were observed during glycocholate infusion, but secretin-induced choleresis and dehydrocholate-induced choleresis were unaccompanied by any increments in lecithin or cholesterol excretion and SC2644 (which caused a marked increase in canalicular bile production as measured by erythritol clearance) caused a depression of lipid excretion.

The data are consistent with the view that lecithin moves passively from cell membranes to intracanalicular micelles, that transport of cholesterol is coupled to lecithin transport, and that there is also a small amount of independent passive transport of cholesterol from membranes to micelles. A model developed on these assumptions has been shown to behave in a fashion consistent with the entire range of these observations.

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