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Bilirubin

Bilirubin (beat - lat. bilis – bile + is mute. Rubin, from armor. ruber – red) – the pigment of bile of yellow-red color representing a product of enzymatic recovery of biliverdin in a liver and other bodies.

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  • Indirect bilirubin (synonym: bilirubin free) – badly soluble in water, adsorbed on proteins of a blood plasma and giving only after additional processing reaction with Ehrlich's diazoreactant; increase in maintenance of this pigment in a blood plasma is noted at increase in formation of bilirubin, for example, at hemolitic (epinephral) jaundice;
  • Straight line bilirubin (synonyms: билирубинглюкуронид, bilirubin connected) – is a bilirubin etherification product molecules of glucuronic acid (one or two), gets red coloring, directly interacting with Ehrlich's diazoreactant; in a blood plasma it is found at disturbance of removal from a bilirubin liver, for example, at mechanical jaundice.
 
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