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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Hepatology. 2013 Jun;57(6):2418–2426. doi: 10.1002/hep.26161

Table 2.

Urine excretion of bile salt and biliverdin in adult sea lampreys

Bile salt Biliverdin
conc. (μM) Rate (nmole/
hr/kg of BW)		 conc. (μM) Rate (nmole/
hr/kg of BW)
Male (n=4) 0.24 ± 0.11 1.1 ± 0.4 4.05 ± 1.71a 18.7 ± 9.1 a
Female (n=4) 0.29 ± 0.09 1.1 ± 0.5 1.70 ± 0.39 6.5 ± 3.3

Of note, urine bile salts are predominantly C27 at this migration stage.

a

p<0.05 male v/s female