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ACCORDING to our present knowledge, bile salts are excreted in bile as the major metabolic product of cholesterol in vertebrates, whereas there has not yet been found any kind of steroid bile salt in invertebrates. Although Vonk1 suggested that taurodeoxycholic acid might be present in the digestive juice of some crayfish, his experimental data were not entirely convincing.
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YAMASAKI, K., USUI, T., IWATA, T. et al. Absence of Bile Acids in the Digestive Juice of the Swamp Crayfish (Procanbarus clarkii). Nature 205, 1326–1327 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/2051326a0
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