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thyroglobulin
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[ noun ] (chemistry,biochemistry) an iodine containing protein that is obtained from the thyroid gland and exhibits the general properties of the globulins
Used in print (Jacob Robbins et al., "The thyroid-stimulating...)This iodoprotein does not appear to be the same as what is normally present in the thyroid , and there is no evidence so_far that thyroglobulin can be iodinated in_vitro by cell-free systems . In the thyroid_gland it appears that proteins ( chiefly thyroglobulin ) are iodinated and that free tyrosine and thyronine are not iodinated . Little is known of the synthetic mechanisms for formation of thyroglobulin . There is some reason to think that thyroglobulin synthesis may proceed independently of iodination , for in certain transplantable tumours of the rat thyroid containing essentially no iodinated thyroglobulin , a protein that appears to be thyroglobulin has been observed in ultracentrifuge experiments ( Wolff , Robbins and Rall , 1959 ) . There is some reason to think that thyroglobulin synthesis may proceed independently of iodination , for in certain transplantable tumours of the rat thyroid containing essentially no iodinated thyroglobulin , a protein that appears to be thyroglobulin has been observed in ultracentrifuge experiments ( Wolff , Robbins and Rall , 1959 ) . Related terms |
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