Gallbladder mucosal function: studies in absorption and secretion in humans and in dog gallbladder epithelium.
Gallbladder mucosal function: studies in absorption and secretion in humans and in dog gallbladder epithelium.
复制标题
胆囊粘膜功能:人类和狗胆囊上皮吸收和分泌的研究。
DOI:
10.1152/ajpgi.1992.263.1.g69
复制
发表时间:
1992
期刊:
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
Lee,SP
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Igimi,H;Yamamoto,F;Lee,SP
The gallbladder is conventionally regarded as an absorptive organ such that dilute hepatic bile is both stored and concentrated. We studied 35 patients who had recovered from a percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage performed for acute cholecystitis. After an overnight fast, gallbladder bile was dark brown in color and had a wide scatter in the lipid composition. Two hours after a meal, the gallbladder bile was opalescent white in color and had the composition of an extracellular fluid. This phenomenon was uniformly observed in all 35 patients and was also consistently reproducible when five patients were repeatedly studied. We used normal dog gallbladder epithelial cell monolayers grown in culture and examined sodium flux. Control gallbladder cells absorbed sodium. When secretin (0.5-2.5 x 10(-7) M) was added, there was a prompt reversal of sodium flux, resulting in net secretion. We conclude that secretion is a physiological function of the gallbladder mucosa. After feeding, the neural and humoral factors divert stored and newly secreted bile into the duodenum and induce active de novo secretion thus producing a gallbladder bile that is opalescent white with no lipids. Our results also have important implications on the origin of the pathological "white bile," the pathogenesis and treatment of gallbladder sludge, as well as the kinetic analysis of compounds undergoing enterohepatic recirculation.