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Another aspect of bile acid research leads to new per- spectives in the treatment of gallstone disease. The dissolution of cholesterol gallstones by chenodeoxycholic acid (therapy) may be quoted as the best example for the development of new phar- macotherapeutic principles derived from basic bile acid research.