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- noun biochemistry A
serum globulin that bindsheme andporphyrins
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Examples
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Next, the body makes a molecule to clean up leaky heme - but in the mice, as heme levels rose, levels of that molecule, known as hemopexin, dropped.
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So they injected sick mice with extra hemopexin and more survived, they reported last week in the journal
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Finally, Soares tested blood samples from 56 sepsis patients in a Brazilian hospital - and found those who survived had significantly higher natural hemopexin levels than those who died.
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II-like domains that are inserted within its catalytic domain, one hemopexin domain, and eight disulfide bridges (.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Virginie Renaud et al. 2010
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