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tropoelastin

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-006540

A salt-soluble precursor of elastin. Lysyl oxidase is instrumental in converting it to elastin in connective tissue.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-006540
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesMedical Subject Headings 2018; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsoelastin
TranslationsSpanish: tropoelastina
Record as JSON
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  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-006540",
  "term": "tropoelastin",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A salt-soluble precursor of elastin. Lysyl oxidase is instrumental in converting it to elastin in connective tissue.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "elastin"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Medical Subject Headings 2018",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "tropoelastina"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/tropoelastin/"
}

Record 6,540 of 6,908 in Agriculture and food terminology (MLC-0114). Request the full dataset.