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| Domain | Definition |
Health | Cysteine proteinase found in many tissues. Hydrolyzes a variety of endogenous proteins including neuropeptides, cytoskeletal proteins, proteins from smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, liver, platelets and erythrocytes. Two subclasses having high and low calcium sensitivity are known. Removes Z-discs and M-lines from myofibrils. Activates phosphorylase kinase and cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Calpain, a calcium-activated protein-degrading enzyme, probably participates in this process. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
10 calpain | 2 |
apoptosis calpain platelet | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "CALPAIN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
French | calpaïne. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | alpaincay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-p" | |
-1 letter: apical, caplin. | |
-2 letters: apian, canal, lanai, lapin, liana, linac, panic, pical, plain, plica. | |
-3 letters: alan, anal, anil, cain, clan, clap, clip, laic, lain, lipa, nail, nipa, paca, pail, pain, pial, pian, pica, pina, plan. | |
-4 letters: aal, ail, ain, ala, alp, ana, ani, can, cap, lac, lap, lin, lip, nap, nil, nip, pac, pal, pan. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-l-n-p" | |
+1 letter: chaplain. | |
+2 letters: analeptic, aplanatic, appliance, applicant, campanile, campanili, chaplains, incapable, incapably, placating, placation. | |
+3 letters: anaglyphic, analeptics, anaplastic, appliances, applicants, campaniles, chaplaincy, noncapital, nyctalopia, paniculate, placarding, placations, plainchant, playacting. | |
+4 letters: anthropical, application, callipygian, calypsonian, carpogonial, catapulting, complainant, complaisant, coplanarity, diencephala, inescapable, inescapably, landscaping, landscapist, noncapitals, nyctalopias, panegyrical, pantropical, pericranial, placatingly, plainchants, playactings, postcranial, puritanical, rapscallion, unpractical. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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