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Science 29 October 1965:
Vol. 150. no. 3696, pp. 620 - 622
DOI: 10.1126/science.150.3696.620
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Lithocholic Acid in Human-Blood Serum

J. B. Carey Jr. 1 and G. Williams 1

1 Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455

Lithocholic acid was present in the serum of three patients with, jaundice and, in smaller amounts, in two healthy adults. This bile acid occurs naturally in human feces but induces cirrhosis of the liver when fed to a wide variety of experimental animals. The finding of lithocholic acid in blood is of interest because of its possible role in injuring human liver.


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