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... > Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins > Proteins > Blood Proteins > Hemoglobins > Hemoglobins, Abnormal > Hemoglobin M
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Hemoglobin M  

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Note

  • /urine: coordinate with HEMOGLOBINURIA

Scope note

  • A group of abnormal hemoglobins in which amino acid substitutions take place in either the alpha or beta chains but near the heme iron. This results in facilitated oxidation of the hemoglobin to yield excess methemoglobin which leads to cyanosis.

History note

  • 91(77); was see under HEMOGLOBINS, ABNORMAL 1977-90

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006449

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