Tiny Doses of Bile Acid May Blunt Preemie Liver Disease

Giving premature babies small doses of a bile acid might help the newborns avoid a liver disease, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture(USDA) physiologist Douglas G. Burrin and his colleagues.
In a preliminary study with newborn piglets as the animal model, Burrin and his co-investigators showed that the bile acid CDCA (chenodeoxycholic acid) helped combat parenteral nutrition-associated