Bilirubin
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bilirubin-162-10410361
title:
Bilirubin
text:
Bilirubin (BR) is a red-orange compound that occurs in the normal catabolic pathway that breaks down heme in vertebrates. This catabolism is a necessary process in the body's clearance of waste products that arise from the destruction of aged or abnormal red blood cells. In the first step of bilirubin synthesis, the heme molecule is stripped from the hemoglobin molecule. Heme then passes through various processes of porphyrin catabolism, which varies according to the region of the body in which
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Red pigment of the bile
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilirubin
date created:
2002-08-06T16:20:26Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T18:00:00Z
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13
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