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It is well known that taurine plays an important role in conjugation of bile acids which are formed from cholesterol in the liver, suggesting that there is a close relationship between taurine and cholesterol metabolism. Kibe et al. 4 reported that taurine stimulates the activity of cholesterol 7α-hydroxylase, the rate-limiting enzyme of bile acid synthesis. Tsuji et al. 11 and Yamori et al. 12 reported that taurine shows a hypocholesterolemic effect in experimentally induced hypercholesterolemic animal models. These findings indicated a possibility that taurine is effective in diet-induced hypercholesterolemia.
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Ogawa, H. (1996). Effect of Dietary Taurine on Lipid Metabolism in Normcholesterolemic and Hypercholesterolemic Stroke-Prone Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats. In: Huxtable, R.J., Azuma, J., Kuriyama, K., Nakagawa, M., Baba, A. (eds) Taurine 2. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 403. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0182-8_13
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