[Qualitative and quantitative variations in the bile acids in the gallbladder bile of rabbits as a function of the cell wall content of the diet].

Two experiments were carried out to study the biliary acids in the rabbit gallbladder. The first studied the effect of diet: commercial rabbit feed, 70% lucerne diet, 70% beet pulp diet. The second experiment studied biliary acids in two groups of young rabbits sacrificed at 28 and 33 days of age, respectively. The concentrations of cholic and glycocholic acids were shown to vary significantly with diet. The composition of the bile of young rabbits differed from that of adults.