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lithocholic acid

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lithocholic acid
the product of bacterial metabolism of bile acids in the intestine. Insoluble and not reabsorbed.


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After excretion into the bile, the primary bile acids CA and CDCA are partly 7[alpha]-dehydroxylated in the intestine by bacterial enzymes to create the secondary bile acids, deoxycholic acid and lithocholic acid, respectively (Fig.
] animals with the toxic endogenous bile acid lithocholic acid led to severe liver damage compared with control animals (Standinger et al.
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