globulin
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Definitions
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Biochemistry.
- : any of a group of proteins, as myosin, occurring in plant and animal tissue, insoluble in pure water but soluble in dilute salt solutions and coagulable by heat.
- : any of several groups of blood plasma proteins, divided into fractions, as alpha, beta, or gamma globulin, depending on electrophoretic mobility.
Examples
Gamma globulin, for example, takes disease-fighting antibodies from healthy donors and gives them to those who cannot make antibodies on their own.
Instead, doctors should turn to other blood thinners, and some experts also recommend immune globulin therapy to break up the aggregated immune and platelet cells.
Holme says the two patients in his study were also successfully treated with immune globulin to help reduce the tendency of the immune cells to clump together with the platelets.
For example, vaccinia immune globulin, or VIG, is stored and ready for the next person who becomes ill from smallpox vaccine.
Paraglobulin, par-a-glob′ū-lin, n. a globulin found in blood-serum, fibrino-plastin.
Besides these mentioned, milk contains traces of another proteid of similar composition called globulin.
The globulin in the body could not remain in solution if there were not always present a small quantity of salt in the blood.
Other forms of protein are globulin and myosin, which form the actual muscle-substance.
Globulin has been reported by Hellmich in an undetermined bacterium, but is certainly not commonly found.