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- adjective medicine That promotes the formation of
calculi
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When fed a lithogenic diet (LD) for 2 weeks, 90% Apobec-1 -/- mice developed solid gallstones in comparison with 16% wild type controls.
Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue Xie, Y., Blanc, V., Kerr, T. A., Kennedy, S., Luo, 2009
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