Mesh term Haptoglobins
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Alpha-Globulins
Mucoproteins
Description
Plasma glycoproteins that form a stable complex with hemoglobin to aid the recycling of heme iron. They are encoded in man by a gene on the short arm of chromosome 16.Search for this term in our Faculty Database
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