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The Regulation of the Flow of Bile

The physiology of the gall bladder and the so-called resistance of the sphincter of Oddi have attracted considerable attention largely from a surgical point of view. Because of the pathology often encountered in the gall bladder and ducts, surgeons have been forced to make decisions regarding the functional significance of these structures and perhaps necessarily to draw conclusions with respec...

the effects of changing roughness on the flow structure in the bends

flow in natural river bends is a complex and turbulent phenomenon which affects the scour and sedimentations and causes an irregular bed topography on the bed. for the reason, the flow hydralics and the parameters which affect the flow to be studied and understand. in this study the effect of bed and wall roughness using the software fluent discussed in a sharp 90-degree flume bend with 40.3cm ...

Sodium taurocholate modifies the bile acid-independent fraction of canalicular bile flow in the rhesus monkey.

Bile acid-independent secretion and the choleretic response to taurocholate were determined in rhesus monkeys fitted with indwelling silastic cannulas in the common bile ducts. Bile acids were infused intravenously in random order at 3.5, 7.0, or 10.5 mumol/min for 1.5 h each. When data were analyzed with a single regression line, bile flow increased in proportion to the level of bile acid secr...

The extracorporeal bile duct: a new model for determination of bile flow and bile composition in the intact rat.

A new model is described which allows measurement of bile flow and sampling of bile in the intact rat with a physiologically functioning sphincter of Oddi. A number of metabolic parameters have been followed to show that animals with such an "extracorporeal bile duct" (EBD) behave as intact controls. Especially, there was no difference in the increase in body weight or hepatic fatty acid and ch...