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Using Multi-fluorinated Bile Acids and In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Measure Bile Acid Transport
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Regulation of bile salt pool size in man

T S Low-Beer, E W Pomare

    British Medical Journal
    |May 12, 1973
    PubMed

    Keywords:
    Bile salt regulationEnterohepatic circulationGallstone formationCholate kinetics

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