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 ...

Future research will likely explore how gut microbial bilirubin metabolism influences our health, from neonatal jaundice and IBD to its relationship with obesity, insulin resistance, and ...

Conjugation of bilirubin and delivery to the intestine doesn't necessarily lead to excretion of the substance. Neonatal intestines contain beta-glucuronidase, an enzyme capable of reducing ...

We also showed that bilirubin may alter substrate metabolism in the bacteria. In short, it looks like the hypothesis is ...