Polydeoxycholate in human and hamster feces: a major product of cholate metabolism.

Fecal bile acid excretion is one of the two major routes by which cholesterol is eliminated from the body, fecal cholesterol being the other. During their enterohepatic circulation, bile acids are secreted into the duodenum, pass down the jejunum and into the ileum where more than 95% is reabsorbed...

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Main Authors: G. Martin Benson, Neville J. Haskins, Christine Eckers, Peter J. Moore, David G. Reid, Robert C. Mitchell, Sunil Waghmare, Keith E. Suckling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 1993-12-01
Series:Journal of Lipid Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022227520353530