Gallbladder emptying

Graph 8.1 Effect of 50 ng Octreotide (OT) or saline injections, given 30 min before food, on meal stimulated gallbladder emptying, as judged by serial measurements of gallbladder volume in control subjects. Data taken from reference 15. 

Dhiman RK, Sarkar PK, Sharma A, Vasishta K, Kohli KK, Gupta S, Suri S, Chawla Y. Alterations in gallbladder emptying and bile retention in the absence of changes in bile lithogenicity in postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy. Dig Dis Sci 2004 49 1335-41. 

Shiratoii, K., Watanabe, S., Chey, W. Y, Lee, K. Y, and Chang, T. M. (1986). Endogenous cholecystokinin drives gallbladder emptying in dogs. Am. J. Physiol 251, G553-G558. 

Vor ALAG < time < D, and outside the gallbladder emptying period,... 

Jawaheer G, Shaw NJ, Pierro A. Continuous enteral feeding impairs gallbladder emptying in infants. J Pediatr 2001 138 822-825. 

Healthy persons fasting overnight prior to the examination showed 56% of the radiotracer in the gallbladder 44% were excreted directly into the small intestine (Brown et al. 1982). The fraction of gallbladder emptying following a whole meal has been measured as 87%. 

Functional ultrasound of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract includes studies of the distal and proximal stomach, gastric and gallbladder emptying, gastric distribution, Gl wall motility, and flow of luminal contents in healthy subjects as well as in patients. Furthermore, it includes the effect of different meals and pharmacological intervention. 

Stone BG, Gavaler JS, Belle SH et al (1988) Impairment of gallbladder emptying in diabetes mellitus. Gastroenterology 95 170-176... 

Goerg, K.J. and Th. Spilker, 2003. Effect of peppermint oil and caraway oil on gastrointestinal motility in healthy volunteers A pharmacodynamic study using simultaneous determination of gastric and gallbladder emptying and orocaecal transit time. Aliment. Pharmacol. Then. 17 445-451. 

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