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Ester Sulphate Pattern of Rabbit Bile

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Isselbacher and McCarthy1 have recently reported excretion of a sulphate conjugate of bilirubin in the bile of rats. Using paper chromatography and auto-radiography of diazotized bile from rats injected with sulphate labelled with sulphur-35, they demonstrated the presence of a radioactive zone in the area of the polar azo pigment.

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BOSTRÖM, H., VESTERMARK, A. Ester Sulphate Pattern of Rabbit Bile. Nature 183, 1593–1594 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831593b0

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