Urobilin
... or urochrome is the chemical primarily responsible for the yellow color of urine. It is a linear tetrapyrrole compound ... Urobilin is generated from the degradation of heme, which is first degraded through biliverdin to bilirubin. Bilirubin is then ... Many urine tests (urinalysis) monitor the amount of urobilin in urine, as its levels can give insight on the effectiveness of ... When urobilinogen is exposed to air, it is oxidized to urobilin, giving urine its yellow color. ...
Urobilinogen
One Ehrlich unit is equal to one milligram of urobilinogen per deciliter of sample (1 mg/dL). Urobilin "Urobilinogen". Family ... With limited urobilinogen available for reabsorption and excretion, the amount of urobilin found in the urine is low. High ... Urobilinogen is converted to the yellow pigmented urobilin apparent in urine. The urobilinogen in the intestine is directly ...
Beta thalassemia
... urine urobilin and urobilogen; peripheral blood smear, which may show codocytes, or target cells; hematocrit; and serum ...
Urine
Usually urination color comes primarily from the presence of urobilin. Urobilin is a final waste product resulting from the ...
Enterohepatic circulation
... which is then further oxidized to urobilin and stercobilin. Urobilin, stercobilin and their degradation products give feces its ... The rest of the reabsorbed urobilinogen is excreted in the urine where it is converted to an oxidized form, urobilin, which ...
Chromophore
Examples of such compounds include bilirubin and urobilin, which exhibit a yellow color. An auxochrome is a functional group of ...
Léon Zadoc-Kahn
Two cases of severe diabetes in young people without urobilin] [location: L'Hôpital Saint-Antoine]; Archives générales de ...
Jaundice
In the urine, urobilinogen is converted to urobilin, which gives urine its characteristic yellow color. One way to understand ... no stercobilin or urobilin is produced. In obstructive jaundice, excess conjugated bilirubin is filtered into the urine without ...
Bilin (biochemistry)
Bilirubin Biliverdin Biliprotein Phycobilin Phycobiliprotein Phycoerythrobilin Stercobilin Urobilin Gmelin's test Oxford GS, ...
Bilirubin
... which can be oxidized to form urobilin and stercobilin. Urobilin is excreted by the kidneys to give urine its yellow color and ... A different breakdown product, urobilin, is the main component of the straw-yellow color in urine.[citation needed] Although ...
Biliverdin
Bilirubin Heme Stercobilin Tetrapyrrole Urobilin Boron W, Boulpaep E. Medical Physiology: a cellular and molecular approach, ...
Stercobilin
... (and related urobilin) can be used as a marker for biochemical identification of fecal pollution levels in rivers. ... Bile pigment Bilirubin Biliverdin Heme Urobilin Boron W, Boulpaep E. Medical Physiology: A cellular and molecular approach, ... suggested that stercobilin and other related pyrrolic pigments - including urobilin, biliverdin, and xanthobilirubic acid - has ...
Bilirubinuria
The increase of stercobilin (urobilin) in the feces and urine is caused by the enhanced intracellular hemolysis of erythrocytes ...
Urine test strip
Poorly stored samples can yield false negative results as the urobilinogen suffers photo oxidation to urobilin that does not ... which is later oxidised and either excreted with the faeces as stercobilin or in the urine as urobilin. Conjugated bilirubin ...
Para-Dimethylaminobenzaldehyde
If a urine sample is left to oxidize in air to form urobilin the reagent will not detect the urobilinogen. By adding few drops ...
Jaffe reaction
Aside from studying creatinine, he is also known for discovering urobilin and urobilinogen in urine and found that these ...
George Harley (physician)
... and the observation that the colour of normal human urine was due to urobilin. While at Heidelberg Harley studied in Robert ...
Jean Troisier
... role of hemolysin in the genesis of bile pigments and Urobilin). Troisier was appointed head of the medical clinic at the ...
Human feces
... and bilirubin derivatives of stercobilin and urobilin, from dead red blood cells. Normally it is semisolid, with a mucus ...
Heme
Some urobilinogen is absorbed by intestinal cells and transported into the kidneys and excreted with urine (urobilin, which is ...
List of MeSH codes (D03)
... urobilin MeSH D03.383.129.578.840.249.852 - urobilinogen MeSH D03.383.129.578.840.374 - chlorophyll MeSH D03.383.129.578. ... urobilin MeSH D03.549.909.249.852 - urobilinogen MeSH D03.549.909.374 - chlorophyll MeSH D03.549.909.374.100 - ...
Nadezhda Ziber-Shumova
Moreover, they developed a method for the detection of urobilin in urine, based on the identification of a specific absorption ...
List of colors (alphabetical)
Ultra pink Ultra red Umber Unbleached silk United Nations blue Unmellow yellow UP maroon Upsdell red Urobilin Vampire black Van ...
C33H42N4O6
... a tetrapyrrole Urobilin, a tetrapyrrole This set index page lists chemical structure articles associated with the same ...
Hospital de Clínicas "José de San Martín"
The description of the reticular hepatic necrosis in the persistent obstructive jaundice, the increase in the urobilin in it ...
List of MeSH codes (D23)
... urobilin MeSH D23.767.193.852 - urobilinogen MeSH D23.767.261.050 - beta carotene MeSH D23.767.261.700 - retinoids MeSH D23.767 ...
List of MeSH codes (D04)
... urobilin MeSH D04.345.783.249.852 - urobilinogen MeSH D04.345.783.374 - chlorophyll MeSH D04.345.783.374.100 - ...