How to Use myoglobin in a Sentence

myoglobin

noun
  • Because of the large amount of myoglobin, these muscles appear dark.
    — Joshua Selsby, CNN, 27 Nov. 2019
  • He was supposed to be researching myoglobin, a protein found in muscles.
    — Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 7 Nov. 2025
  • His urine was not tested, but the discoloration was likely the result of the excess myoglobin.
    — Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2021
  • In beef, that color comes from myoglobin, a compound that transmits oxygen from the bloodstream to muscle cells.
    — J. Kenji López-Alt, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • His urine was dark because the oxygen-carrying parts of the muscle known as myoglobin were collecting in the kidneys.
    — New York Times, 14 July 2021
  • Iron is needed to make hemoglobin and myoglobin, important proteins in red blood cells that carry oxygen throughout your body and muscles.
    — Katlyn Moncada, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Dec. 2021
  • These products, such as the protein myoglobin, are particularly harmful to the kidneys and can result in kidney failure.
    — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 7 June 2018
  • Each company needed to come up with a means of mimicking myoglobin’s function in the sensory experience of biting into a cut of beef.
    — Paul Tullis, Town & Country, 2 May 2021
  • The color magic happens when nitrites convert to nitric oxide (NO), which binds to the iron in muscle myoglobin to form a stable pigment when heated.
    — Patrick Di Justo, WIRED, 11 May 2012
  • Our skeletal muscles make myoglobin, a single globin protein ancestral to hemoglobin, which helps muscle hang on to a reserve of oxygen to use during exercise.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Apr. 2019
  • Similar to the hemoglobin found in our blood, myoglobin carries oxygen to the animal's muscles, according to the New York Times.
    — Jessica Leigh Mattern, Country Living, 17 May 2017
  • One study concluded that CK damage persisted more than seven days post-marathon while another study discovered the presence of myoglobin in the bloodstream for 3-4 days post race.
    — Jeff Gaudette, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2019
  • One of the first came in 1962 after LMB researchers, having pioneered x-ray crystallography, used the technique to decipher the first atomic structures for proteins—those of myoglobin and hemoglobin, which carry oxygen in muscle tissue and blood.
    — Eric Hand, Science | AAAS, 23 Jan. 2020

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