“…Recently, it was reported that several synthetic bile acids induced apoptosis in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells, human breast carcinoma cells, and human leukemic T cells Park et al, 1997;Im et al, 1999;Im et al, 2001), and inhibited angiogenesis in human hepatocellular carcinoma cells . Moreover, UDCA and its synthetic derivatives, HS-1030 and HS-1183, inhibited SV40 DNA replication, and predominantly inhibited the initiation stage of DNA replication .…”