Stasis before gallstone formation: Altered gallbladder compliance or cystic duct resistance?

The physical chemistry of cholesterol solubility in bile. Relationship to gallstone formation and dissolution in man.

Martin C. Carey, Donald Small · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1978 · 699 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Bioavailability +11

Quantitative cholescintigraphy: Assessment of gallbladder filling and emptying and duodenogastric reflux

Eldon A. Shaffer, P. McOrmond, H.E. Duggan · Gastroenterology · 1980 · 148 citations

Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, Radiology +15

The role of the gallbladder in the pathogenesis of cholesterol gallstones

Wayne W. LaMorte, David J. Schoetz, Desmond H. Birkett et al. · Gastroenterology · 1979 · 141 citations

Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pathology +12

The formation of abnormal bile and cholesterol gallstones from dietary cholesterol in the prairie dog

Douglas E. Brenneman, William E. Connor, E. L. Forker et al. · Journal of Clinical Investigation · 1972 · 120 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Animal Sciences, Biochemistry +17

ON THE EXPULSION OF BILE BY THE GALL BLADDER; AND A RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SPHINCTER ACTIVITY

Philip D. McMaster, Robert Elman · The Journal of Experimental Medicine · 1926 · 72 citations · Full text

Medicine, Physiology, Veterinary Physiology +17