Fig. 1. Flowchart of 25 participants. 10 Healthy controls and 15 patients with gallbladder diseases were enrolled. 10 Healthy controls were living-donors for the liver transplant and underwent right hepatectomy and cholecystectomy. Among 15 patients, 10 patients with chronic cholecystitis underwent laparoscopic cholecystectomy and 5 patients with gallbladder cancer underwent extended cholecystectomy. Bile samples were collected aseptically and analyzed.
