Bile acid profiles in urine of patients with liver diseases

European Journal of Clinical Investigation - Tập 9 Số 5 - Trang 341-348 - 1979
A. Bremmelgaard1, Jan Sjövall1
1Medical Department A, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Department of Chemistry, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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Abstract. Quantitative gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry was used to study the metabolic profiles of unconjugated, conjugated and sulphated bile acids in urine of patients with intermittent intrahepatic cholestasis of unknown aetiology, cirrhosis of the liver, primary biliary cirrhosis, viral and toxic hepatitis and extrahepatic cholestasis.A large number of bile acids was present which can broadly be classified into four groups: cholic and chenodeoxycholic acids constituted between 49·4% and 77·9% of the total bile acids (mean values of the groups); deoxycholic and other 3,12‐disubstituted bile acids between 1·3% and 12·3%, monohydroxy bile acids between 6·7% and 14·4% and bile acids hydroxylated at C‐1 or C‐6 between 4·6% and 14·6%. The high proportion of bile acids from the latter group, and the presence of tetrahydroxylated bile acids, clearly distinguished hepatic disease from the normal state. The metabolic profiles were very variable and there were few consistent differences between the groups of diseases studied. Norcholic acid constituted a significantly higher percentage of the total bile acids in cirrhotic patients (6·2 ± 6·8%) than in non‐cirrhotic patients (1·3±1·8%, P<0·001). With this exception, no profile was specific for any type of intra‐ or extra‐hepatic cholestasis.The excretion rates of the major l‐hydroxylated bile acids were positively correlated to each other. The same was true for the major 6‐hydroxylated bile acids. This may indicate that cholic, chenodeoxycholic and deoxycholic acids act as substrates for common 1‐ and 6‐hydroxylating enzymes. Possibly the taurine conjugates are preferred substrates since 1‐hydroxylated bile acids and hyocholic acid were found mainly in this fraction. A positive correlation between the excretion of sulphated 3β‐hydroxy‐5‐cholenoic acid and 3β,12α‐dihydroxy‐5‐cholenoic acid indicates a direct metabolic relationship between these compounds.Confirming previous data, a high proportion of bile acids was sulphated. The degree of sulphation increased with decreasing number of hydroxyl groups, reaching 100% for the monohydroxy and most of the dihydroxy acids. Tetrahydroxycholanoates were not sulphated, and sulphation of trihydroxycholanoates was positively correlated to the renal bile acid excretion rate.Bile from patients with intermittent intrahepatic cholestasis did not contain the tetrahydroxylated bile acids present in urine. Hyocholic acid was a very minor, mainly taurine conjugated, bile acid. Monohydroxy bile acids were usually below the detection limit. These data do not support the hypothesis that lithocholic acid participates in the initiation or perpetuation of intermittent intrahepatic cholestasis of unknown aetiology.

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European Journal of Clinical Investigation

Tập 9 Số 5

341-348

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