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Using Multi-fluorinated Bile Acids and In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Measure Bile Acid Transport
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Postprandial serum bile acids in healthy man. Evidence for differences in absorptive pattern between individual bile

B Angelin, I Björkhem

    Gut
    |August 1, 1977
    PubMed

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