Fat metabolism is a fascinating process and essential for human survival. It involves the digestion, absorption, transportation and utilization of lipids as a source of energy or as an energy reserve.

Cattle gallstones are valuable due to their use in Chinese medicine. Some stones sell for twice the price of gold.

FOR the 6,000 people in the UK who are newly diagnosed with bile duct cancer every year, the prognosis is uniquely grim. According to data from Cancer Research UK, up to 70 per cent of all these ...

Consultant medical oncologist Professor John Bridgewater is leading the UK arm of an international study to find treatments for bile duct cancer (Charlotte Southall/UCLH/PA) Doctors in the UK are ...

While studying mouse and human liver tumors, they discovered that certain bile acids in the liver could affect the activity of cancer-fighting immune cells, called T cells. The researchers ...

Public transport in the Netherlands is some of the best in the world. With huge costs to own cars, it’s no surprise both cycling and public transport thrive so well here. But we imagine it can be ...

One is that calcium can bind to bile acids in the colon and lower their potentially carcinogenic effects. It can also protect the lining of the colon from these acids and other potentially harmful ...

They found that those who lost protection also had generally higher levels of bile acids. However, those with remission had higher levels of two specific bile acids, known as lithocholates.

These contents include stomach acid, pepsin (a digestive enzyme) and bile (made by the liver to help digest fats). Reflux occurs when the muscle controlling the passage of food from the oesophagus ...

13 The ability of HDL to promote reverse cholesterol transport (i.e. from peripheral tissues to the liver for excretion in the bile) has been thought of as the major function of HDL for 4 decades.