The Micellar Sink
Open Access
- 1 December 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Clinical Investigation in JCI Insight
- Vol. 62 (6), 1122-1131
- https://doi.org/10.1172/jci109231
Abstract
Although the importance of mixed micelles in the solubilization and biliary excretion of lipids is established, little is known about a possible role of mixed micelles in the excretion of other biliary solutes. Ultrafiltration and ultracentrifugation techniques were used to investigate the interaction between substances that are excreted in bile and biliary mixed micelles. Substances (urea, erythritol, sucrose) excreted in bile at concentrations equal to, or less than, that in plasma did not show an association with mixed micelles, whereas substances (indocyanine green, iopanoic acid, rose bengal, unconjugated and conjugated sulfobromophthalein, and conjugated bilirubin) excreted in bile at high concentration relative to plasma did. The percentage of these latter substances in bile associated with micelles varied from 26 to 93% and was relatively independent of concentration. In addition to their association with mixed micelles, these test solutes formed self-aggregates that were stabilized primarily by ionic bonds, and only a small percentage (range = 0-5%) of these solutes were present in bile in the form of monomer or complexes small enough to pass a 5,000-mol wt membrane. These findings offer a possible explanation for the increase in sulfobromophthalein, bilirubin, and indocyanine green maximal biliary excretory rate produced by bile salt infusion, and suggest that the concentrative transport into bile of endogenous compounds and xenobiotics may result from their incorporation into mixed micelles and other macromolecular complexes.This publication has 40 references indexed in Scilit:
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