OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 13334

casein

/ˈkeɪ.siːn/
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caseína
A protein present in both milk and in the seeds of leguminous plants.
It’s the clumping nature of the caseins that makes possible most thickened milk products, from yogurt to cheese. The whey proteins play a more minor role; they influence the textur…
Since writing this report, we found that the intravenous injection of nucleoprotein, casein, and probably also other albuminous substances may produce small necroses of liver tissu…
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