Gallstones in hamsters

It is of interest that the diet used in dogs resembles that used by Dam and Christensen (46) to produce gallstones in hamsters in being high in carbohydrate and low in protein and fat. The low protein resulted in an increased glycine/taurine ratio of biliary bile salts in both dogs (113) and hamsters (61). Furthermore, addition of 1 % cholesterol to the hamster diet decreased the incidence of cholesterol stones and increased the incidence of... 

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