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A hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and stores it in the tissues until needed
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myoglobin
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n. a hemoprotein that receives oxygen from hemoglobin and stores it in the tissues until needed
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n. (context protein English) A small globular protein, containing a heme group, that carries oxygen to muscles
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Myoglobin (symbol Mb or MB ) is an iron - and oxygen -binding protein found in the muscle tissue of vertebrates in general and in almost all mammals. It is related to hemoglobin , which is the iron- and oxygen-binding protein in blood, specifically in the ...
Usage examples of myoglobin.
Though Spock preferred his greens to possess a distinct bite of chlorophyll, without any admixture of hemoglobin or myoglobin or whatever animal protein preceded the greens in the synthesizer, he could subsist on poorly designed food.
Sugars, acetone bodies, creatine, nitrogenous compounds, haemoglobin, myoglobin, amino acids and metabolites, uric acid, urea, urobilinogen and coproporphyrins, bile pigments, minerals, fats, and of course a great variety of psychotropic drugs: certainly all of the ones proscribed by the US Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
The other became the ancestor of all the genes that make myoglobins, a related family of proteins that work in muscles.