cholangioprotective

comparative more cholangioprotective · superlative most cholangioprotective

1. medicineThe property of protecting the bile ducts (cholangiocytes) from damage, disease, or dysfunction. It is used in medical and pharmacological contexts to describe substances, therapies, or mechanisms that help maintain the health of the biliary system.

   Agonism of these receptors exerts important cholangioprotective and anti-inflammatory effects.

   2023, Petar Mamula, Judith R. Kelsen, Andrew B. Grossman, Robert N. Baldassano, Jonathan E. Markowitz, editors, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease, 4 edition, Springer Nature, page 131

   1 more example

   Nonamidated norUDCA undergoes cholehepatic shunting enabling 'ductular targeting' and inducing a bicarbonate-rich hypercholeresis, with cholangioprotective effects.

   2015, Trauner M, Halilbasic E, Claudel T, Steinacher D, Fuchs C, Moustafa T, Pollheimer M, Krones E, Kienbacher C, Traussnigg S, Kazemi-Shirazi L, Munda P, Hofer H, Fickert P, Paumgartner G, “Potential of nor-Ursodeoxycholic Acid in Cholestatic and Metabolic Disorders.”, in Digestive diseases, volume 33, number 3, Basel, Switzerland, page 433