TY - JOUR T1 - Measurement of total bile acids in gastric juice. JF - Journal of Clinical Pathology JO - J Clin Pathol SP - 313 LP - 316 DO - 10.1136/jcp.37.3.313 VL - 37 IS - 3 AU - B J Collins AU - P C Watt AU - T O'Reilly AU - R J McFarland AU - A H Love Y1 - 1984/03/01 UR - http://jcp.bmj.com/content/37/3/313.abstract N2 - An established method for the assay of total bile acids was validated for use in fasting and post-prandial gastric juice samples. Fasting and post-prandial intragastric bile acid concentrations were measured in 29 healthy volunteers, 15 patients after vagotomy and gastrojejunostomy (V and GJ) and 15 patients after vagotomy and pyloroplasty (V and P). Healthy female volunteers had higher post-prandial bile acid concentrations than age matched healthy males (p less than 0.02). Patients with V and GJ had higher fasting and post-prandial bile acid concentrations than age and sex matched control subjects (p less than 0.01). Patients with V and P had higher bile acid concentrations than control subjects only in post-prandial samples (p less than 0.05). ER -