Tauroursodeoxycholic acid, also known as ursodoxicoltaurine, is a highly hydrophilic tertiary bile acid that is produced in humans at a low concentration. It is a taurine conjugate of ursodeoxycholic acid with comparable therapeutic efficacy and safety, but a much higher hydrophilicity. Normally, hydrophilic bile acids regulates hydrophobic bile acids and ...
Tauroursodeoxycholic acid is used to prevent and treat gallstone formation.
Tauroursodeoxycholic acid is used in combination with phenylbutyric acid to treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in adults.
University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Torino, Italy
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Vermont Lung Center, Colchester, Vermont, United States
Alfried Krupp Krankenhaus Rüttenscheid, Essen, Germany
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Hannover, Germany
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Huntsman Cancer Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
MD Anderson, Houston, Texas, United States
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
The Discovery of the Double Sphincter in Gallbladder, Guiyang, Guizhou, China
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
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