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In the enterohepatic circulation, bile acids have important roles in digesting dietary fat in the intestine. The detergent action of bile acids can be expected to influence biological membranes. In fact, feathery degeneration of hepatocytes and irregular-shaped erythrocytes are seen in chronic cholestatic liver diseases where the concentration of bile acids increases in hepatic tissue and serum.
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Nakashima, T. et al. (1996). Taurine in the Liver. In: Huxtable, R.J., Azuma, J., Kuriyama, K., Nakagawa, M., Baba, A. (eds) Taurine 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 403. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0182-8_10
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