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Hemolysin - definition of hemolysin in the Medical dictionary. Hemolysin /he·mol·y·sin/ (he-mol´ĭ-sin) a substance that liberates hemoglobin from erythrocytes by interrupting their structural integrity. Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. hemolysin [himol′əsin] Etymology: Gk, haima + lysis, loosening any one of the numerous substances that lyse or dissolve red blood cells. Mosby's Medical Dictionary, 8th edition. © 2009, Elsevier. hemolysin [he-mol´ĭ-sin] a substance that liberates hemoglobin from erythrocytes by interrupting their structural integrity. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. © 2003 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc.

Hemolysin (hēmol´isin), n an antibody that causes hemolysis of red blood cells in vitro. he·mol·y·sin (hē-mol'i-sin), 1. 2. 1. Is soy healthy? Soy is not the health food that you think it is. The core of their concerns rests with the chemical makeup of soy: in addition to all the nutrients and protein, soy contains a natural chemical that mimics estrogen, the female hormone. Some studies in animals show that this chemical can alter sexual development. And in fact, 2 glasses of soy milk/day, over the course of one month, contain enough of the chemical to change the timing of a woman’s menstrual cycle.

Isoflavones in soybeans Soybeans contain an impressive array of phytochemicals (biologically active components derived from plants), the most interesting of which are known as isoflavones. Isoflavones are the compounds which are being studied in relation to the relief of certain menopausal symptoms, cancer prevention, slowing or reversing osteoporosis and reducing the risk of heart disease. Soy critics point to the fact that soybeans, as provided by nature, are not suitable for human consumption. Soy - more negatives than positives. Cotyledon scheideckeri - Gwannon.com. HEMOLYSINS OF VEGETABLE ORIGIN. Malaria, potato famine pathogen share surprising trait. COLUMBUS, Ohio, 29 May 2006 – Two wildly different pathogens – one that infects vegetables, the other infecting humans – essentially use the same protein code to get their disease-causing proteins into the cells of their respective hosts.

That’s what researchers from Ohio State and Northwestern universities report in a study published in the current issue of the journal PLoS Pathogens. The scientists were surprised to learn that the pathogen that causes malaria in humans and the microbe that caused the Irish potato famine use identical protein signals to start an infection. “I don’t think anyone expected this,” said Sophien Kamoun, a study co-author and an associate professor of plant pathology at Ohio State’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster. “These are very different pathogens, and we never realized that there might be some similarities between them.” with Ohio State University.