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BILE ACID

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Any of the steroid acids generated in the liver and stored with bile

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Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("bile acid" is a kind of...):

steroid (any of several fat-soluble organic compounds having as a basis 17 carbon atoms in four rings; many have important physiological effects)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bile acid"):

cholic acid (an insoluble crystalline acid present in bile)

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 Context examples: 

Dextrothyroxine stimulates the formation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and increases the catabolism of LDL thereby leading to increased excretion of cholesterol and bile acids via the biliary route.

(Dextrothyroxine, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of the total bile acids in a biological specimen.

(Bile Acid Measurement, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Finally, the investigators found that one bacterial species, Clostridium scindens, controls metabolism of bile acids in the mouse gut — and ultimately CXCL16 expression, NKT cell accumulation, and tumor growth in the liver.

(Study finds gut microbiome can control antitumor immune function in liver, National Institutes of Health)

This protein is involved in the mediation of fatty acid oxidation and the synthesis of bile acid.

(Peroxisomal Acyl-Coenzyme A Oxidase 2, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes peroxisomal acyl-coenzyme A oxidase 2 protein, plays a role in both bile acid biosynthesis and fatty acid oxidation.

(ACOX2 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

This allele, which encodes fatty acid-binding protein, liver, is involved in fatty acid metabolism in the liver and is important for bile acid regulation.

(FABP1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

The determination of the amount of bile acids present in a sample.

(Bile Acid Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

The primary bile acids, cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid, are synthesized in the liver and conjugated with taurine or glycine before secretion via bile into the intestine.

(Bile Acid Biosynthesis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

Fluid composed of waste products, bile acids, salts, cholesterol, and electrolytes.

(Bile, NCI Thesaurus)

A positively charged, non-digestible, triamine and epoxypropane copolymer anion-exchange resin that binds to bile acids in the intestine to form an insoluble complex, which is excreted in the feces.

(Colestipol, NCI Thesaurus)