Definition of Urobilin. Meaning of Urobilin. Synonyms of Urobilin

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Definition of Urobilin

Urobilin
Urobilin U`ro*bi"lin, n. [1st uro- + bile + -in.] (Physiol. Chem.) A yellow pigment identical with hydrobilirubin, abundant in the highly colored urine of fever, and also present in normal urine. See Urochrome.

Meaning of Urobilin from wikipedia

- Urobilin is the chemical primarily responsible for the yellow color of urine. It is a linear tetrapyrrole compound that, along with the related colorless...
- and was originally isolated from **** in 1932. Stercobilin (and related urobilin) can be used as a marker for biochemical identification of fecal pollution...
- urobilinogen levels. Urobilinogen is converted to the yellow pigmented urobilin apparent in urine. The urobilinogen in the intestine is directly reduced...
- subsequently the kidneys, where it is excreted. Air oxidizes urobilinogen into urobilin, which gives urine its characteristic color. In parallel, a small amount...
- filtered into the kidneys. In the urine, urobilinogen is converted to urobilin, which gives urine its characteristic yellow color. One way to understand...
- bacteria to urobilinogen, which is then further oxidized to urobilin and stercobilin. Urobilin, stercobilin and their degradation products give **** its...
- acts as a chromop****. Examples of such compounds include bilirubin and urobilin, which exhibit a yellow color. An auxochrome is a functional group of atoms...
- yellow. Usually urination color comes primarily from the presence of urobilin. Urobilin is a final waste product resulting from the breakdown of heme from...
- conjugated and thus not excreted in the urine. The increase of stercobilin (urobilin) in the **** and urine is caused by the enhanced intracellular hemolysis...
- and either excreted with the faeces as stercobilin or in the urine as urobilin. Conjugated bilirubin appears in urine when the normal degradation cycle...