| 1. | Bile is formed of three elements : bile salts, bilirubin and cholesterol.
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| 2. | They resist bile salts, detergents, heavy metals, ethanol, azide, and desiccation.
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| 3. | Bile salts form emulsify fats, aiding in their digestion and absorption.
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| 4. | Colipase is necessary, along with bile salts, to enable lipase function.
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| 5. | This protein also transports glucuronides and sulfate conjugates of steroid hormones and bile salts.
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| 6. | Without bile salts, most of the lipids in food would be excreted in faeces, undigested.
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| 7. | All species grow in the presence of bile salts.
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| 8. | They are broken down into emulsified by bile salts for optimal activity of these enzymes.
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| 9. | The serum bile acid blood test for ICP is a quantitative measurement of bile salts.
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| 10. | The different hydrolyzing enzymes are activated by different types of bile salts and have distinct substrate specificities.
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