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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Gastroenterol. 2014 May;30(3):332–338. doi: 10.1097/MOG.0000000000000057

Figure 1. Accumulation of deoxycholic acid in the bile acid pool of Veterans Affairs patients.

Figure 1

Bile acid 7α-dehydroxylation by intestinal clostridia result in hydrophobic bile acids that can return to the liver via the portal circulation and accumulate in the human bile acid pool. Adapted from Ridlon et al (2006) [14].