Bile Acids in the Treatment of Cardiometabolic Diseases

Bile acids (BA), for decades considered only to have fat-emulsifying functions in the gut lumen, have recently emerged as novel car-dio-metabolic modulators. They have real endocrine effects, acting via multiple intracellular receptors in various organs and tissues. BA affect energy homeostasis thro...

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Main Author: Libor Vítek
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-11-01
Series:Annals of Hepatology
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1665268119310427