Effects of ursodeoxycholic acid and chen
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Sophie Hillaire; FranΓ§ois Ballet; Dominique Franco; Kenneth D. R. Setchell; Raou
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Article
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1995
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Hepatic bile acid concentrations are elevated in chronic cholestasis because of reduced canalicular excretion and active ileal absorption of the fraction eliminated in the gut. Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) reduces the intestinal absorption of endogenous bile acids, thereby diminishing the concentrati