Measurement of key primary and secondary bile acids, their taurine and glycine conjugates, as well as iso- and oxo- forms, that can give important information about microbiota and host metabolism.
Sample requirements: 200 to 500 mg (wet weight) feces
Fecal Bile Acids Panel
unconjugated bile acids
- Cholic acid
- Chenodeoxycholic acid
- Deoxycholic acid
- Lithocholic acid
- Ursodeoxycholic acid
Taurine-conjugated bile acids
- Taurocholic acid
- Taurochenodeoxycholic acid
- Taurodeoxycholic acid
- Taurolithocholic acid
- Tauroursodeoxycholic acid
Glycine-conjugated bile acids
- Glycocholic acid
- Glycochenodeoxycholic acid
- Glycodeoxycholic acid
- Glycolithocholic acid
- Glycoursodeoxycholic acid
other bile acids
- 7,12-oxo-lithocholic acid
- Ursocholic acid
- 7-oxo-deoxycholic acid
- Iso-cholic acid
- 3-oxo-cholic acid
- Hyocholic acid
- Hyodeoxycholic acid
- 7-oxo-lithocholic acid
- 12-oxo-lithocholic acid
- Iso-chenodeoxycholic acid
- 3-oxo-chenodeoxycholic acid
- 3-oxo-deoxycholic acid