No evidence is available on the transport of biliary biliary route) may be increased in certain pathological urate and the possible role of choleretic agents in the conditions such as uremia. 2,3 In addition, several facregulation of biliary urate elimination in humans. To tors such as extracellular fluid volume, urine flow rate, test this hypothesis we studied the following: (1) 45 cho-alcohol, food components, many medications (mainly lecystomized patients to determine urate levels in he-pyrazinamide and probenecid), and hormones alter patic bile and gallbladder bile, and (2) 13 cholecysto-urate kidney transport. 4 Assuming that the physiologimized patients fitted with T-tubes to determine the cal processes of bile secretion and urine excretion share effects of secretin injection (either 70 U of porcine secre-many similarities, biliary urate transport may be modi- urate comes mainly from secreted compound, the filof a significant increase in mean bile flow (P õ .001), whereas the mean biliary urate concentration signifi-tered urate representing a percentage of less than 10% cantly decreased (P õ .001) with a concomitant decrease of the excreted amount. 6 On the other hand, the biliary in the mean serum urate concentration (P õ .02). Manni-transport of urate has not, to our knowledge, been pretol also induced a significant increase in the mean urate viously investigated. In view of the fact that extrarenal clearance (P õ .002) because of a significant increase in urate elimination (including the biliary elimination the mean biliary urate concentration (P õ .01) with a route) may be important in some of the previously menconcomitant decrease in the mean serum urate concen-tioned pathological conditions, we sought to investigate tration (P õ .01) and without changes in the mean bile the biliary urate clearance (1)