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Effect of bile duct ligation on bile acid metabolism in rats

T Kinugasa, K Uchida, M Kadowaki, H Takase, Y Nomura and Y Saito

The effect of bile duct ligation on the quantitative and qualitative changes of bile acids in serum, liver, urine, and feces, and the concentration of cholesterol and phospholipids in serum and liver were examined in male rats. The concentration of bile acids in serum increased over 100-fold on day 5 but was lower than the 5-day level on days 10 and 15. The concentration in the liver also increased about 10- fold. beta-Muricholic acid predominantly increased but the secondary bile acids, deoxycholic acid and hyodeoxycholic acid, decreased. The urinary excretion of bile acids increased to about 40 mg/day per rat on the first day of bile duct ligation but this increase was reduced on day 2 to about half and remained at that level until day 24. These values exceeded that of fecal bile acids, 12 mg/day per rat, before bile duct ligation. The amount of bile acid sulfates in the urine was as low as 1% of the total. The urinary non-sulfated bile acids consisted mainly of beta-muricholic acid (60%) and cholic acid (20%), while the sulfates contained a considerable amount of unidentified acidic substances (40%) in addition to cholic acid and beta-muricholic acid. The concentration of cholesterol and phospholipids in serum markedly increased on day 5 but declined gradually thereafter. The liver cholesterol concentration did not change but the phospholipid concentration decreased. Fecal sterols did not change in both the total amount and composition. These data indicated that daily synthesis of bile acids, especially beta-muricholic acid, was accelerated in bile duct-ligated rats.
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