Sentences with phrase «with myoglobin»

«The reason whale meat is so dark is that it's filled with myoglobin that is capable of holding oxygen.

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The results were conclusive: runners with a higher genetic score had lower levels of creatine kinase and myoglobin in their blood, that is, less damage to muscle fibres, compared to marathon runners with a less favourable score.

Moreover, the proteins of the injured muscle are released in blood, which allows the wasting to be quantified by measuring the amount of creatine kinase or myoglobin with just one blood sample.

Berenbrink and Campbell systematically analyzed the genes and available information for all mammalian myoglobins, including those from deep - diving species, and found that the myoglobins from aquatic mammals had large positive surface charges compared with those from land animals.

The researchers found that stability was the key for cells to make large amounts of myoglobin, which is explains why deep - diving mammals can load their muscle cells with far more myoglobin than humans.

Iron helps form hemoglobin and myoglobin, two proteins that provide your tissues with a fresh supply of oxygen.

Slow - twitch muscles have a high blood supply and plenty of mitochondria (energy providing structures in cells that convert food into an energy source the cells can utilize) and myoglobin (oxygen and iron binding muscle protein that provides cells with oxygen).

Dark meat pieces (thighs and legs) are higher in myoglobin, a protein that increases in muscles with age and exercise.

They have large sinuses in their abdomens to hold blood and can also store oxygen in their muscles with increased myoglobin concentrations in muscle.

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.