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bile salt |
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Mobilization of PCBs and lindane from soil during in vitro digestion and their distribution among bile salt micelles and proteins of human digestive fluid and the soil. Earlier research showed that the gene FXR is responsible for maintaining normal concentrations of bile salts, which are chemicals that keep gallbladder cholesterol dissolved. After a meal, the gallbladder contracts and injects several tablespoons of bile into the small intestines, where the detergent-like bile salts break up fats. |
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