Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid
"Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A bile salt formed in the liver by conjugation of chenodeoxycholate with taurine, usually as the sodium salt. It acts as detergent to solubilize fats in the small intestine and is itself absorbed. It is used as a cholagogue and choleretic.
| Descriptor ID |
D013655
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D02.455.326.146.100.850.875.900.875 D02.886.645.600.055.850.800.900.875 D04.210.500.105.225.272.150.850 D04.210.500.105.225.272.925.875 D04.210.500.105.225.900.900.870 D04.210.500.221.430.342.300.900 D04.210.500.221.430.342.900.910 D04.210.500.221.430.873.920.900
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid" by people in this website by year, and whether "Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
![]()
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Taurochenodeoxycholic Acid" by people in Profiles.
-
FFA-induced adipocyte inflammation and insulin resistance: involvement of ER stress and IKK? pathways. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2011 Mar; 19(3):483-91.