... study was to measure protein synthesis rates of total liver protein and albumin during a state of acute inflammation. Patients ( n =10) undergoing acute laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to acute cholecystitis were investigated. FSRs (fractional synthesis rates) of total liver protein (liver biopsy...

... was immunolocalized by autoradiography, mainly in the epithelium. 3. In experimental cholecystitis, elicited by implantation of human gall-stones into the cat gall bladder, the continuous fluid secretion into the lumen was inhibited by exogenous enkephalins. 4. Acetorphan, an enkephalinase inhibitor, was found...

... cholecystitis, there is active fluid secretion by the epithelial cells into the gall-bladder lumen, when the intraluminal hydrostatic pressure is low. This fluid secretion to the lumen was abolished by intravenous administration of enkephalin, an effect that was blocked by naloxone pretreatment. The flux...