Dictionary

troponin en · NOUN

Etymology

From tropomyosin. Coined by the Japanese researcher Setsuro Ebashi in 1963.http://jb.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol59/issue4/index.dtl

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A heterotrimeric regulatory protein complex found in the thin filaments of striated muscle fibers, including both skeletal and cardiac muscle, that controls calcium-mediated muscle contraction.

Forms

Translations (10)

ru тропонин (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · gl troponina (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · fr troponine (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · el τροπονίνη (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · tr troponin (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · es troponina (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · it troponina (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · ca troponina (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · cmn 肌鈣蛋白 /肌钙蛋白 (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle) · fi troponiini (regulatory protein of skeletal and cardiac muscle)