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  • noun biochemistry A serum globulin that binds heme and porphyrins

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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.

    USATODAY.com Weather News 2010

  • So they injected sick mice with extra hemopexin and more survived, they reported last week in the journal

    USATODAY.com Weather News 2010

  • 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.

    USATODAY.com Weather News 2010

  • 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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