Pale or light-colored stools, however, are not typical and may be a sign of an underlying health condition. Your liver releases bile salts into your stools, giving the stools a brown color.

Clearing out the highly abundant, liver-conjugated bile acids will allow us to study ... it would be advantageous to excrete them in our stool. We have evidence that MCBAs are readily excreted ...

If the liver is involved, you may be advised to avoid drinking alcohol. If your pale stools are caused by something structural, like blocked bile ducts, you may need surgery to remove the blockage ...

Ultimately, a single main bile duct comes out of the liver and joins the first part of the small intestine (duodenum). Bile (and therefore bilirubin) then passes out through the small and large ...

Rapid transit of bile can be caused by a variety of ... or pale/clay-colored stools (which suggests liver or gallbladder disease). Yellow poop that's associated with severe abdominal pain ...

Figure 4: Bile acid concentrations are increased in the serum, stool and urine of Tcf1 −/− ... asphyxiation and total RNA was isolated from liver using Trizol (Gibco BRL).