Ursodeoxycholic acid and primary biliary cirrhosis
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The ursodeoxycholic acid story in primary biliary cirrhosis.
The ursodeoxycholic acid story in primary biliary cirrhosis The name ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is derived from 'ursocholeinische saure' used by Hammarsten in 1902 to describe a bile acid discovered in polar bears. The bile acid he identified was actually chenodeoxycholic acid.1 UDCA is the 7P epimer of chenodeoxycholic acid and has the chemical structure 3a 7,B-dihydroxy-5p-cholan-24-oic acid...
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BACKGROUND & AIMS We evaluated the efficacy and safety of obeticholic acid (OCA, α-ethylchenodeoxycholic acid) in a randomized controlled trial of patients with primary biliary cirrhosis who had an inadequate response to ursodeoxycholic acid therapy. METHODS We performed a double-blind study of 165 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (95% women) and levels of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) 1....
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1994
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.309.6953.491