RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Gallstones: an intestinal disease?
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 435
OP 438
DO 10.1136/gut.44.3.435
VO 44
IS 3
A1 K J VAN ERPECUM
A1 G P VAN BERGE-HENEGOUWEN
YR 1999
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/44/3/435.abstract
AB Current evidence suggests that impaired intestinal motility may facilitate gallstone formation by influencing biliary deoxycholate levels or by modulating interdigestive gall bladder motility (fig 2), although a primary intestinal defect in gallstone pathogenesis has not yet been demonstrated. In the cold war period, most interesting events, from a political point of view, occurred at the border between capitalist and communist systems, near the iron curtain. Similarly, the gall bladder and biliary tract can be viewed as the border between liver and intestinal tract, where many interesting things occur with profound impact on both systems. Combined efforts by researchers in the field of hepatology and gastrointestinal motility should brake down the Berlin wall of ignorance of one of the most common diseases in the Western world.CCKcholecystokininMMCmigrating motor complex