Sa1320 Eicosapentaenoic Acid Dissolves Cholesterol Gallstones by Attenuating Cholesterol Saturation and Suppressing Mucin Production in Mice

Providing a lithogenic diet that contains 0.5% cholesterol to experimental mice for 10 weeks resulted in cholesterol supersaturation in gallbladder bile, which induced the formation of cholesterol gallstones. In this study, to evaluate the anti-cholelithogenic potential of dietary tender cluster bean, a freeze-dried powder of the test legume was included in the lithogenic diet at 5%, 10%, and 15%. Dietary cluster beans reduced the cholesterol gallstone incidence by 43%, 46%, and 58% at the respective doses. Dietary cluster beans markedly reduced biliary cholesterol and, hence, the cholesterol saturation index. This was corroborated by the beneficial modification of the cholesterol/phospholipid ratio and the cholesterol/bile acid ratio in the bile. Dietary cluster beans countered the alterations in serum and liver cholesterol and lipid profiles caused by the lithogenic diet. Thus, dietary tender cluster beans exerted an anti-cholelithogenic influence by decreasing cholesterol hypersecretion into bile and, hence, the cholesterol saturation index, decreasing the formation of lithogenic bile in experimental mice.

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Effect of Lysine Acetylsalicylate on Biliary Lipid Secretion in Dogs

Clinical Science ◽

10.1042/cs0490253 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 49 (3) ◽

pp. 253-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

S. Erlinger ◽

Dominique Bienfait ◽

Renee Poupon ◽

Micheline Dumont ◽

M. Duval

Keyword(s):

Bile Salt ◽

Bile Flow ◽

Bile Salts ◽

Biliary Lipid ◽

Cholesterol Gallstones ◽

Cholesterol Saturation ◽

Parallel Increase ◽

Lysine Acetylsalicylate ◽

Cholesterol Secretion ◽

Salt Secretion

1. The influence of lysine acetylsalicylate on bile flow, erythritol clearance and bile salt, phospholipid and cholesterol secretion in bile was studied in unanaesthetized dogs fitted with a Thomas duodenal cannula. 2. Lysine acetylsalicylate induced a marked increase in bile flow and a parallel increase in erythritol clearance although the bile salt secretion remained unchanged; this suggests that the compound stimulated the formation of the canalicular (hepatocytic) bile salt-independent fraction of bile flow. 3. Lysine acetylsalicylate induced a significant decrease in biliary phospholipid and cholesterol secretion and the cholesterol saturation of bile was significantly reduced. 4. It is postulated that the decrease in phospholipid and cholesterol secretion resulted from the dilution of intracanalicular bile salts. This effect of lysine acetylsalicylate, and possibly of other bile salt-independent choleretics, may be of value in the treatment of cholesterol gallstones in man.

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N-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid attenuates cholesterol gallstones by suppressing mucin production with a high cholesterol diet in mice

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology ◽

10.1111/j.1440-1746.2012.07227.x ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 27 (11) ◽

pp. 1745-1751 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Ja Kyung Kim ◽

Soo Min Cho ◽

So Hee Kang ◽

Eunjung Kim ◽

Hee Yi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Fatty Acid ◽

Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid ◽

High Cholesterol Diet ◽

Cholesterol Diet ◽

High Cholesterol ◽

Cholesterol Gallstones ◽

Mucin Production

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A scanning electron microscopic study on dissolving process of cholesterol gallstones by chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA)

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100083485 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

pp. 522-523

Author(s):

T. Kanetaka ◽

M. Cho ◽

S. Kawamura ◽

T. Sado ◽

K. Hara

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscope ◽

Chenodeoxycholic Acid ◽

Outer Surface ◽

Electron Microscopic ◽

Cholesterol Gallstones ◽

The Core ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopic Study ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopic ◽

Acceleration Voltage ◽

Scanning Electron

The authors have investigated the dissolution process of human cholesterol gallstones using a scanning electron microscope(SEM). This study was carried out by comparing control gallstones incubated in beagle bile with gallstones obtained from patients who were treated with chenodeoxycholic acid(CDCA).The cholesterol gallstones for this study were obtained from 14 patients. Three control patients were treated without CDCA and eleven patients were treated with CDCA 300-600 mg/day for periods ranging from four to twenty five months. It was confirmed through chemical analysis that these gallstones contained more than 80% cholesterol in both the outer surface and the core.The specimen were obtained from the outer surface and the core of the gallstones. Each specimen was attached to alminum sheet and coated with carbon to 100Å thickness. The SEM observation was made by Hitachi S-550 with 20 kV acceleration voltage and with 60-20, 000X magnification.

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Environmental scanning electron microscopy of fresh human gallstones reveals new morphologies of precipitated calcium salts

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100131243 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 1322-1323

Author(s):

Howard S. Kaufman ◽

Keith D. Lillemoe ◽

John T. Mastovich ◽

Henry A. Pitt

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽

Environmental Scanning ◽

X Ray Diffraction ◽

Calcium Salts ◽

Cholesterol Gallstones ◽

X Ray ◽

Ca Carbonate ◽

Scanning Electron

Gallstones contain precipitated cholesterol, calcium salts, and proteins. Calcium (Ca) bilirubinate, palmitate, phosphate, and carbonate occurring in gallstones have variable morphologies but characteristic windowless energy dispersive x-ray (EDX) spectra. Previous studies of gallstone microstructure and composition using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with EDX have been limited to dehydrated samples. In this state, Ca bilirubinates appear as either glassy masses, which predominate in black pigment stones, or as clusters, which are found mostly in cholesterol gallstones. The three polymorphs of Ca carbonate, calcite, vaterite, and aragonite, have been identified in gallstones by x-ray diffraction, however; the morphologies of these crystals vary in the literature. The purpose of this experiment was to study fresh gallstones by environmental SEM (ESEM) to determine if dehydration affects gallstone Ca salt morphology.Gallstones and bile were obtained fresh at cholecystectomy from 6 patients. To prevent dehydration, stones were stored in bile at 37°C. All samples were studied within 4 days of procurement.

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Rapid weight less induced by leptin restores succeptibility to cholesterol gallstones in genetically obese (Oh/Oh) mice

Gastroenterology ◽

10.1016/s0016-5085(01)82735-9 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 120 (5) ◽

pp. A550-A550

Author(s):

H HYOGO ◽

N RANGINANI ◽

B PAIGEN ◽

D COHEN

Keyword(s):

Cholesterol Gallstones

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Eicosapentaenoic acid

Lipidomics Gateway ◽

10.1038/lipidmaps.2011.5 ◽

2011 ◽

Author(s):

Samia Burridge

Keyword(s):

Eicosapentaenoic Acid

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Eicosapentaenoic Acid Interferes with U46619-Stimulated Formation of Inositol Phosphates in Washed Rabbit Platelets

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1647129 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 62 (04) ◽

pp. 1116-1120 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

N Chetty ◽

J D Vickers ◽

R L Kinlough-Rathbone ◽

M A Packham ◽

J F Mustard

Keyword(s):

Signal Transduction ◽

Fatty Acid Composition ◽

Eicosapentaenoic Acid ◽

Inositol Phosphates ◽

Inositol Phosphate ◽

Dense Granule ◽

Detectable Change ◽

Membrane Phospholipids ◽

Rabbit Platelets ◽

Stimulation Of

SummaryEicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) inhibits platelet responsiveness to aggregating agents. To investigate the reactions that are affected by EPA, we examined the effect of preincubating aspirintreated rabbit platelets with EPA on stimulation of inositol phosphate formation in response to the TXA2 analogue U46619. Stimulation of platelets with U46619 (0.5 μM) caused aggregation and slight release of dense granule contents; aggregation and release were inhibited by preincubation of the platelets with EPA (50 μM) for 1 h followed by washing to remove unincorporated EPA. Incubation with EPA (50 μM) for 1 h did not cause a detectable increase in the amount of EPA in the platelet phospholipids. When platelets were prelabelled with [3H]inositol stimulation with U46619 of control platelets that had not been incubated with EPA significantly increased the labelling of mos1tol phosphates. The increases in inositol phosphate labelling due to U46619 at 10 and 60 s were partially inhibited by premcubat10n of the platelets with 50 μM EPA. Since the activity of cyclo-oxygenase was blocked with aspirin, inhibition of inositol phosphate labelling in response to U46619 indicates either that there may be inhibition of signal transduction without a detectable change in the amount of EPA in platelet phospholipids, that changes in signal transduction require only minute changes in the fatty acid composition of membrane phospholipids, or that after a 1 h incubation with EPA, activation of phospholipase C is affected by a mechanism that is not directly related to incorporation of EPA.

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