The Eisai hyperbilirubinemic rat is a mutant strain of Sprague-Dawley origin with hereditary defects in the biliary excretion of bilirubin glucuronide, glutathione, and several other organic anions. The correlation between bile flow and bile acid excretion rates during taurocholate infusion revealed that bile acid-independent flow was smaller in the mutant than in intact Sprague-Dawley rats (19.3 vs 56.0 microliters/kg per min), while bile acid-dependent flow was similar. The correlation between bile flow and glutathione excretion rates in Sprague-Dawley rats with modified hepatic glutathione levels revealed that a certain portion of bile flow was proportional to the biliary excretion of glutathione, with a coefficient of 551 bile per 1 mol glutathione. One-third of bile acid-independent bile flow in intact Sprague-Dawley rats was accounted for by glutathione osmosis, which feature was absent in the mutant rats.

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