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Elastin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Elastin is a protein in connective tissue that is elastic and allows many tissues in the body to resume their shape after stretching or contracting. Elastin helps skin to return to its original posit...
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A gene for elastin is missing: Dr. Colleen Morris of the University of; Nevada and her coworkers at the University of Utah discovered that all individuals with Williams syndrome tested lacked a small piece of one of their two chromosomes called Chromosome # 7 [NOTE: Our chromosomes come in pairs, one from each parent].
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Elastin, the protein responsible for the elastic properties of vertebrate tissues, has been thought to be solely restricted to that role. ... Second, the elastic function of elastin is discussed. The controversy on elastin structure and elasticity is discussed and a novel dynamic mechanism of elasticity proposed.
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Desmosines are crosslinking amino acids unique to mature elastin in humans. ... Desmosines are crosslinking amino acids unique to mature elastin in humans. Owing to this unicity, they have been discussed as potentially attractive indicators of connective tissue disorders whose clinical manifestations are mostly the result...
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Online Medical Dictionary and glossary with medical definitions ... Elastin: A protein that coil and recoils like a spring within the elastic fibers of connective tissue and accounts for the elasticity of structures such the skin, blood vessels, heart, lungs, intestines, tendons, and ligaments.
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Elastin (Eln) ... NP_036854.1 elastin R. norvegicus 100.0 874 ... NP_031951.2 elastin M. musculus 91.0 859...
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All Elastin Products Company, Inc. products sold from our catalogue and website and those sold as custom preparations are for use only by qualified professionals. All products are for laboratory use in research animals and for in vitro testing.
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Elastin microfibril interfacer 3 (Emilin3) ... NP_878260.1 elastin microfibril interfacer 3 M. musculus 100.0 757 ... BC002161.1 Mus musculus elastin microfibril interfacer 3, mRNA (cDNA clone IMAGE:3485728) P...
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