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hemoglobin A

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hemoglobin A [′hē·mə‚glō·bən ′ā]
(biochemistry)
The type of hemoglobin found in normal adults, which moves as a single component in an electrophoretic field, is rapidly denatured by highly alkaline solutions, and contains two titratable sulfhydryl groups per molecule.


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Acid gel electrophoresis demonstrated a predominant hemoglobin A band with a second faint band running between the S and C positions.
Robert Furchgott of the State University of New York Health Science Center at Brooklyn, called the Duke insight "a new idea, surprising and interesting to those of us who have been using hemoglobin as a scavenger.
They found that the mean proportion of hemoglobin F to hemoglobin A (adult) in 59 SIDS victims was 63 percent, compared with a mean of 48 percent in 40 age-matched control infants.
 
 
 
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