If you like your steaks rare you might say «I like them bloody» but the red liquid that comes out of a rare steak isn't actually blood (the majority of which is removed during slaughter) but water retained in the muscle tissue mixed with a protein
called myoglobin.
A substance
called myoglobin within the muscle cells that is released can result in severe kidney damage and even kidney failure.
It is also a component of another protein
called myoglobin, which helps our muscles both store and use oxygen.
The dark - colored urine results from the breakdown of muscle, which deposits a protein
called myoglobin in the blood and urine.
These iron - containing enzymes have a reddish protein
called myoglobin.
Not exact matches
Samuel, a graduate student in the Department of BioSciences at Rice, said the heme - free form of
myoglobin that she studied is
called apoprotein or apomyoglobin.