A new study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that human noroviruses, the leading viral cause of foodborne ...

SACRAMENTO — Taking bile acids or treatments that regulate their production levels may help control inflammation caused by psoriasis, a chronic skin condition, a UC Davis Health study has found.

Bile acids are essential molecules the liver produces that play a critical role in digestion. They help us absorb fat-soluble vitamins and cholesterol from our food. However, bile acids can become a ...

Bile is a digestive fluid produced by the liver to help in the digestion of fat and absorption of nutrients. However, if you experience reflux (the flow of stomach contents into the esophagus), you ...

Immunotherapy is a modern approach to cancer treatment that uses a patient's own immune system to help fight tumors. It has made an incredible impact on treating cancers in many different organ ...

Probiotic Lactobacillus bacteria use enzymes situationally to manipulate bile acids and promote their own survival in the gut. New research from North Carolina State University reveals that probiotic ...

Obstetric cholestasis (OC) alternatively called intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP), is a cholestasis disorder that ...

Primary bile acids are synthesized from cholesterol in the liver, which is transformed to cholic acid (CA) through the classical pathway and chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) as an alternative pathway.

I’ve spent my life in the health care field—I’ve been dean of the college of nursing at three different universities—but it took years to solve my own health crisis. By 2003, my symptoms were even ...

The image depicts gut microbes producing secondary bile acids to support the host’s immune defense against cancer. Microbiota-derived bile acids (shown in light green) blocked the androgen receptor ...

Andrea Merchak receives funding from National Institutes of Health grant R33 MH108156, National Institutes of Health grant T32 NS115657, The Owens Family Foundation, UVA Trans University Microbiome ...