Bile acids : toxicology and bioactivity /
edited by Gareth Jenkins, Laura J. Hardie.
- 1st Ed.
- Cambridge : SC Pub., c2008.
- xi, 163 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Issues in toxicology .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
An overview of bile-acid synthesis, chemistry and function -- Bile-acid physiology and measurement -- Bile-acid induction of apoptosis in relation to gastrointestinal cancer -- The genotoxicity of bile acids -- Bile acids and colorectal cancer -- Bile acids and oesophageal adenocarcinoma (OA) -- Bile acids and obesity -- The role of bile acids in cholesterol-rich gallstone formation.
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Bile acids--Physiological effect. Bile acids--Toxicology.