Enterohepatic Circulation and Health
About the Lecture
The lecture Enterohepatic Circulation and Health by Kevin Ahern, PhD is from the course Amino Acid Metabolism.
Included Quiz Questions
Which of the following is true regarding the movement of bilirubin in the body?
- Intestinal bacteria convert bilirubin to urobilinogen.
- Stercobilin gives urine its color.
- Biliary obstruction results in darker feces and lighter urine.
- Stercobilin can be recycled back to biliverdin to help with reactive oxygen species.
- Urobilin gives feces its color.
Which of the following is true regarding bilirubin?
- Plasma concentrations can increase in hepatic or pancreatic diseases.
- It is consumed by intestinal flora.
- It causes jaundice only when its unconjugated form is increased.
- Conjugated bilirubin in the urine may indicate kidney disease.
- High levels of bilirubin in the brain are neuroprotective.
Gilbert syndrome is caused by the deficiency of which one of the following?
- Glucuronosyltransferase enzyme deficiency
- Bilirubin deficiency in the blood
- Biliverdin deficiency in the blood
- Stercobilin deficiency in the blood
- Unconjugated bilirubin deficiency in the blood
The intestinal flora metabolizes bilirubin diglucuronide into which of the following?
- Urobilinogen
- Bilirubin
- Bilivardin
- Heme
- Glucuronic acid
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Author of lecture Enterohepatic Circulation and Health
Kevin Ahern, PhD
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