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Chinese Journal of Digestion
; (12)2001.
Artículo
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| ID: wpr-682750
RESUMEN
Objective To investigate the mRNA expression of liver receptor homolog 1 (LRH-1) gene in patients with cholesterol gallstone disease so that to elucidate the biomolecular pathogenesis of gallstone for- mation.Methods Twenty-seven patients with cholesterol gallstone (CGS) and 14 controls were included in this study.Biliary composition was assayed and mRNA expression of hepatic LRH 1 gene was determined by real time polymorphism chain reaction.Results In CGS patients,expression of LRH-1 was significantly higher than that in controls (14.18?9.37 vs 7.86?6.19,P<0.05),and cholesterol of bile was oversaturated (1.17?0.27).Conclusion The formation of CGS may be related to increased expression of hepatic LRH-1 gene.