Bile Acids in Gastroenterology

Part I. Biological Aspects of Bile Acids

1. Metabolism of Bile Acids
Hajime Takikawa

2. Hepatobiliary Transport of Bile Acids
Tatehiro Kagawa

3. Intestinal Digestion and Absorption
Akira Honda, Tadashi Ikegami, Yasushi Matsuzaki

4. Nuclear Receptor Regulation
Makoto Makishima

5. Bile Acid as Therapeutic Agents
Yoshihide Yamanashi, Tappei Takada, Hiroshi Suzuki

Part II. Bile Acids and Diseases

6. Bile Acids and Gallstones: Epidemiology, Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management
Susumu Tazuma

7. Bile Acids and Cholestatic Liver Disease 1: Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)
Atsushi Tanaka

8. Bile Acids and Cholestatic Liver Disease 2: Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Takahiro Nakazawa

9. Bile Acids and Cholestatic Liver Disease 3: Inborn Errors of Bile Acid Synthesis
Hiroshi Nittono, Akihiko Kimura, Hajime Takei, Takao Kurosawa, Takashi Iida

10. Bile Acids and NAFLD/NASH
Tsuneo Kitamura, Sumio Watanabe

11. Bile Acids and Viral Hepatitis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Yasuaki Takeyama, Shotaro Sakisaka

12. Bile Acids and Pancreatic Disease
Morihisa Hirota, Tooru Shimosegawa

13. Bile Acids and Esophageal Cancer
Juntaro Matsuzaki, Hidekazu Suzuki

14. Bile Acid and Colorectal Cancer
Michiaki Unno

15. Bile Acids and Metabolic Syndrome
Hiroki Taoka, Mitsuhiro Watanabe

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Gastroenterology, Metabolic Diseases, Hepatology