"Taurocholic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The product of conjugation of cholic acid with taurine. Its sodium salt is the chief ingredient of the bile of carnivorous animals. It acts as a detergent to solubilize fats for absorption and is itself absorbed. It is used as a cholagogue and cholerectic.
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D013656
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D02.455.326.146.100.850.875 D02.886.645.600.055.850.800 D04.210.500.105.225.900 D04.210.500.221.430.873
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Taurocholic Acid" by people in Profiles.
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Bile acid malabsorption in persistent diarrhoea. J R Coll Physicians Lond. 2000 Sep-Oct; 34(5):448-51.
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Bile acid malabsorption associated with Graves' disease. J Clin Gastroenterol. 1994 Jul; 19(1):54-6.
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Biliary physiology in rats with bile ductular cell hyperplasia. Evidence for a secretory function of proliferated bile ductules. J Clin Invest. 1988 Feb; 81(2):569-78.