The product of conjugation of cholic acid with taurine. Its sodium salt is the chief ingredient of the bile of carnivorous animals. It acts as a detergent to solubilize fats for absorption and is itself absorbed. It is used as a cholagogue and cholerectic.
Taurocholic Acid has been studied across 17 research domains including 🫁 Liver & Detox, 🦠 Gut & Microbiome, 🔥 Metabolic, 🔬 Oncology, ❤️ Cardiovascular. The primary research focus is 🫁 Liver & Detox with 28% of studies addressing this area.
The following compounds share molecular targets with Taurocholic Acid, based on binding affinity data from BindingDB and ChEMBL. Sorted by shared target overlap.
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