While drinking caffeinated coffee will cause a slight increase in urine excretion, it won’t cause you to lose more fluid than you’re getting from the coffee itself. Baham adds that habitual ...

Other research suggests that unusual levels of bilirubin stimulate peripheral itch sensory neurons. Bilirubin is a pigment of bile. People with liver disease often have high levels of bilirubin.

Rolla City Council Monday night heard Police Chief Sean Fagan’s presentation on an ordinance to prohibit public urination and defecation, briefly questioned the chief about the proposed legislation ...

From the Department of Medicine, University of Chicago. Supported in part by a grant (AM-07091) from the United States Public Health Service. † Assistant professor of medicine, Department of ...

Problems with the liver or bile ducts can turn the stool pale or light colored. There are two forms of bilirubin in the body. One type passes in the urine or feces and the other type binds to the ...

CONJUGATED bilirubins (esters) are formed within the liver cells from bilirubin and glucuronic or sulphuric acid. These compounds are very unstable because of the highly reactive central methylene ...

A high bilirubin level, or hyperbilirubinemia, occurs when bilirubin has accumulated in your body in excessive amounts. Bilirubin forms when red blood cells break down at the end of their life cycle, ...

Creams and lotions can also temporarily relieve the itch. Jaundice, or yellowing of the eyes and skin, is caused by a buildup of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is a reddish-yellow waste product ...

This study explores the impact of MAIT cells on atherosclerosis. Our findings demonstrate a new mechanism for plasma VLDL-C clearance by MAIT cell-mediated cholesterol excretion. The results provide ...

Elevations in serum bilirubin during treatment with lapatinib and pazopanib are associated predominantly with UGT1A1*28 and Gilbert's syndrome. Gilbert's syndrome is clinically benign, so isolated ...

This investigation of 23 patients with the clinical syndrome of "primary biliary cirrhosis" was undertaken to elucidate the morphologic nature of the hepatic alterations, including their etiology ...