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
• 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
• The high amount of myoglobin and subsequent oxygen in our muscle cells allows us to hold our breath for extended periods of time.
  — Popular Science, 1 Jan. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• It’s also why beached whales quickly find themselves in danger: On land, a whale’s bulk damages their muscles and releases dangerous amounts of a protein called myoglobin that can cause their kidneys to fail.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 27 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• To failure and beyond From one non-scientist fitness enthusiast to another, here’s what happened: In a healthy workout, muscles get micro-tears and release small amounts of a toxic protein called myoglobin that passes through your system harmlessly.
  — NBC News, 11 Jan. 2020

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024