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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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