“…Furthermore, these conditions appear to be associated with increased serum bilirubin levels (Bonacini, 2004;Malaguarnera et al, 2005;Richardson et al, 2006b;Hansen, 2010). (Pellinen et al, 1993) Chloroform Anesthetic/Teflon (Camus et al, 1996) Cocaine Topical anesthetic (Pellinen et al, 1994a(Pellinen et al, , 1994b) Ethanol Fuel, beverage, and antiseptic (Lu et al, 2010) Phenobarbital Barbiturate and anticonvulsant (Hahnemann et al, 1992;Salonpää et al, 1994) Pyrazole Precursor for various medicines (Juvonen et al, 1985;Nichols and Kirby, 2008 (Cai et al, 2002) Buthionine sulfoximine Drug used in chemotherapy to reduce levels of glutathione (Gilmore et al, 2003) pregnenolone 16a-carbonitrile (PCN) Pregnane X receptor (PXR) agonist or antiglucocorticoid (Cai et al, 2002) Rifampicin Bactericidal antibiotics (Donato et al, 2000) Trans-4,5-dihydroxy-1,2-dithiane (DTTox) Intramolecular disulfide form of dithiothreitol; reducing agent (Gilmore and Kirby, 2004) (Montero et al, 1999) Bilirubin Bilirubin (BR) is the end product of heme catabolism, and heme is found in hemoglobin or other hemoproteins such as cytochromes, catalase, and a small pool of unbound free heme (Roy-Chowdhury et al, 2007). BR consists of a tetrapyrrole ( Figure D1).…”