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Helicobacter pylori and cholesterol gallstone formation in C57L/J mice: a prospective study.
American journal of physiology. Gastrointestinal and liver physiology - 1 Jan 2006
Maurer Kirk J, Rogers Arlin B, Ge Zhongming, Wiese Ashley J, Carey Martin C, Fox James G
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Recently, we demonstrated that cholesterol gallstone-prone C57L/J mice rarely develop gallstones unless they are infected with certain cholelithogenic enterohepatic Helicobacter species. Because the common gastric pathogen H. pylori has been identified in the hepatobiliary tree of cholesterol gallstone patients, we wanted to ascertain if H. pylori is cholelithogenic, by prospectively studying C57L infected mice...
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