Hemocyanins (also spelled haemocyanins and abbreviated Hc) are proteins that transport oxygen throughout the bodies of some invertebrate animals. These...

There are four major classifications of respiratory pigment: hemoglobin, hemocyanin, erythrocruorin–chlorocruorin, and hemerythrin. The heme-containing globin...

Keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) is a large, multisubunit, oxygen-carrying, metalloprotein that is found in the hemolymph of the giant keyhole limpet, Megathura...

were long thought unnecessary in insects, but ancestral and functional hemocyanin has been found in the hemolymph. Insect "blood" generally does not carry...

blue blood may refer to: Hemolymph, circulatory fluid colored blue by hemocyanin, a respiratory protein evident in most molluscs and some arthropods Nobility...

drop to 3% of its total oxygen uptake. The octopus' respiratory pigment, hemocyanin, also assists in increasing oxygen uptake. Octopuses can maintain a constant...

have a pallial lung. The respiratory protein in almost all gastropods is hemocyanin, but one freshwater pulmonate family, the Planorbidae, have hemoglobin...

continua Hyperelastosis cutis or hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia Hemocyanin, a metalloprotein abbreviated Hc HC smoke, a US military designation for...

leukocytes and the second-most common respiratory pigment called hemocyanin.: 488  Arthropod hemocyanin is a distinct variation specific to arthropods and is a...

anaerobic conditions. Branchial hearts also appear to be involved in hemocyanin synthesis. Each branchial heart is directly connected to a branchial heart...

hemoglobin, the hemocyanin is not bound to cells but is simply dissolved in the hemolymph, the fluid part of the blood. Keyhole limpet hemocyanin from Megathura...

the terms immunogen and antigen were not distinguished. Keyhole limpet hemocyanin It is copper-containing respiratory protein, isolated from keyhole limpets...

internal organs. The haemolymph contains hemocyanin, a respiratory protein similar in function to hemoglobin. Hemocyanin contains two copper atoms, tinting...

appears to be the only members of Arachnida where the respiratory pigment hemocyanin is present in their blood. One of the long-running controversies in arachnid...

skeleton. The blood of these molluscs contains the respiratory pigment hemocyanin as an oxygen-carrier. The heart consists of one or more pairs of atria...

molluscs and crustaceans, copper is a constituent of the blood pigment hemocyanin, replaced by the iron-complexed hemoglobin in fish and other vertebrates...

oxygen-carrying proteins such as myoglobin, hemoglobin, hemerythrin, and hemocyanin. Several transition metals form complexes with O2, and many of these complexes...

to: Green Blood (manga), a Japanese manga series by Masasumi Kakizaki Hemocyanin, a copper-based system of transporting oxygen in blood found in many molluscs...

worms. Hemocyanin is homologous to the phenol oxidases (e.g. tyrosinase) since both enzymes sharing type copper active site coordination. Hemocyanin also...

transport. The most common respiratory pigment in arthropods is copper-based hemocyanin; this is used by many crustaceans and a few centipedes. A few crustaceans...

of many spiders that have book lungs contains the respiratory pigment hemocyanin to make oxygen transport more efficient. Spiders have developed several...

carbohydrates, proteins, and lipids). The primary oxygen transporter molecule is hemocyanin. There are free-floating cells, the hemocytes, within the hemolymph. They...

Gutenberg-University Reports Findings in Blood Proteins (The evolution of hemocyanin genes in Tectipleura: a multitude of conserved introns in highly diverse...

environments with little oxygen and in low temperatures, hemocyanin has the upper hand. The hemocyanin molecule is much larger than the hemoglobin molecule...

water using a plastron or blood gill Storage of oxygen in hemoglobin and hemocyanin molecules in hemolymph Taking oxygen from surface via breathing tubes...

narrow vas deferens, the prostate, and the penis. Fasciolaria tulipa hemocyanin can be dissociated and denatured by urea and Hofmeister salt series, potentially...

the inner wall of the carapace. In addition, the respiratory protein hemocyanin has been found in the two orders Myodocopida and Platycopida. Nitrogenous...

cooperative binding. It is used to store oxygen rather than transport it. Hemocyanin The second most common oxygen-transporting protein found in nature, it...

allow the hemocyanin to continue to function efficiently. The Dungeness crab, Cancer magister, relies on the magnesium ion (Mg2+) for its hemocyanin oxygen...

Lobsters, like snails and spiders, have blue blood due to the presence of hemocyanin, which contains copper. In contrast, vertebrates, and many other animals...