Bile Acid Biology and its Therapeutic Implications
Subtitle: Proceedings of the Falk Symposium 141 (XVIII Internationale Bile Acid Meeting) held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 18 - 19, 2004 (Falk Symposium)
Contributors: G. Paumgartner (Editor); D. Keppler (Editor); U. Leuschner (Editor); A. Stiehl (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: April 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781402028939
Subjects: Diseases & disorders; Medical / Nursing; Gastroenterology; Medical; Internal Medicine; Medical / Internal Medicine; Bile Acids and Salts; Biliary Tract Diseases; Congresses; drug therapy; metabolism; therapeutic use
First sentence: Research over the past three decades has led to the annotation of the pathways by which cholesterol is converted into conjugated bile acids in the liver1.