title: [Clinical significance of bile acids].
abstract: During the last years bile acids have gained more and more clinical importance. They play a decisive part in intestinal fat resorption. Increased bile acid content in the colon will result in diarrhea. By determination of serum bile acids the liver function can be judged exactly. It seems probable that bile acids take part in the pathogenesis of gastritis gastric ulcer and colonic cancer. By administration of chenodeoxycholic acid and ursodeoxycholic acid dissolution of cholesterol stones within the gall bladder is possible.
mesh_terms: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D002635:Chenodeoxycholic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000188:drug therapy; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology; D003840:Deoxycholic Acid / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005756:Gastritis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007408:Intestinal Absorption; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000097:blood; D010070:Oxalates / Q000378:metabolism; D013276:Stomach Ulcer / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D001647:Bile Acids and Salts; D010070:Oxalates; D003840:Deoxycholic Acid; D002635:Chenodeoxycholic Acid
vernacular_title: Klinische Bedeutung der Gallensäuren.