Jaundice - causes, treatment & pathology

What is jaundice? Well, jaundice is a condition where the skin and eyes take on a yellowish color due to increased levels of bilirubin in the bloodstream. Find our full video library only on Osmosis: osms.it/more.
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We've updated this video! The previous version stated that urobilin is responsible for the brown color of feces. Well, in fact, it's stercobilin that's responsible for the brown color of feces. It also later implied that urobilinogen was responsible for darker colored urine, where actually it should have said urobilin was responsible for the darker colored urine.

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According to Goljan audio lectures, urobilin is still the pigment that colors the feces. Except that it's given the fancy name "Stercobilin". "sterco" meaning stools. Stercobilin has the same composition and chemical properties as urobilin. So someone who says urobilin gives color to stools isn't wrong.

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Heme is broken down to biliverdin by heme oxygenase. Biliverdin is then broken down to bilirubin by biliverdin reductase.(NADP dependent enzyme).

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