Vitellins
"Vitellins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Major egg yolk proteins from egg-laying animals such as non-mammalian VERTEBRATES; ARTHROPODS; and others. They are high-density lipoglycoproteins derived from circulating precursors, VITELLOGENINS. Vitellins serve as nutrients for the growing non-mammalian embryos (EMBRYO, NONMAMMALIAN).
| Descriptor ID |
D047048
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.290.812
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