Guest guest Posted November 20, 2003 Report Share Posted November 20, 2003 Hi ; These 5 articles provide a pretty good summary of the mechanisms of action of Urso and the promising positive effects of high-dose Urso on delaying disease progression in PSC, and in chemoprevention of colorectal cancer: Angulo P 2002 Use of ursodeoxycholic acid in patients with liver disease. Curr. Gastroenterol. Rep. 4: 37-44 Harnois DM, Angulo P, nsen RA, Larusso NF, Lindor KD 2001 High- dose ursodeoxycholic acid as a therapy for patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis. Am. J. Gastroenterol. 96: 1558-1562 SA, Bansi DS, Hunt N, Von Bergmann K, Fleming KA, Chapman RW 2001 A preliminary trial of high-dose ursodeoxycholic acid in primary sclerosing cholangitis. Gastroenterology 121: 900-907 Pardi DS, Loftus EV Jr, Kremers WK, Keach J, Lindor KD 2003 Ursodeoxycholic acid as a chemopreventive agent in patients with ulcerative colitis and primary sclerosing cholangitis. Gastroenterology 124: 889-893 Paumgartner G, Beuers U 2002 Ursodeoxycholic acid in cholestatic liver disease: mechanisms of action and therapeutic use revisited. Hepatology 36: 525-531 If you visit our PSC Literature website: http://home.insightbb.com/~rhodesdavid/ and then scroll down the left " Menu " and click on " urso " you'll find each of these references listed with individual links to their PubMed abstracts. I can provide you with full text of the Harnois et al and Paumgartner and Beuers papers if you would like. Just let me know your e-mail address and I will send them as file attachments. Best regards, Dave (father of (18 yr); dx PSC 07/03; dx UC 08/03) > > Dave R. Thanks for the email on Urso.I may need > to do that get articles about why I should be on > Urso. > > in Ga. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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