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Stercobilin
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Stercobilin is a tetrapyrrole chemical compound, responsible for the typical brown color of human feces.
It is created from bacterial conversion of bilirubin to stercobilinogen and subsequently oxidised to stercobilin.