Bouchard G, Johnson D, Carver T, Paigen B, Carey MC. Cholesterol gallstone formation in overweight mice establishes that obesity per se is not linked directly to cholelithiasis risk.
J Lipid Res. 2002 Jul;43(7):1105-13.
Investigators |
Beverly Paigen The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME Guylaine Bouchard Hopital Ste-Justine, Montreal, Quebec CANADA Martin C Carey Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
Participants | Johnson D, Tovbina M, Silva A, Carver T, Tracy T, McFarland C, Archer J, Whitmore H |
Contact | Beverly Paigen bev.paigen@jax.org |
Affiliated Center | JAX Heart, Lung, and Blood Center (HLB) |
Part of a series: |
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Inbred strains see Paigen1
• Obesity mutant strains (this project) Paigen3 |
Acknowledgements | Funding provided by NIH DK51568, HL66611, DK36588, DK34854, DK52911; Medical Research Council of Canada
Generous funds from Aventis Pharmaceuticals Inc. were used to defray the cost of mice through the Mouse Phenome Project. |
Phenotype strain survey data set | |
MPD identifiers | Paigen3 MPD:28 |
4 updates/corrections. Initial release date: 02/2001. | |
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Baseline vs. high-fat diet for 8wks. | ||
Cholesterol, HDL, non-HDL. 4h fast, plasma. Hepatic lipids. 8wks on high-fat diet. | ||
Alanine transaminase, bile salts (plasma) after 8wks on high-fat diet. 4h fast. | ||
Gallstone, gallbladder, and atherosclerosis lesion histopathology after 8wks on high-fat diet | ||
Gallbladder volume after 8wks on high-fat diet | ||
Liver weight after 8wks on high-fat diet. |