fetuin meaning

• [Medicine]
  The first alpha-globulins to appear in mammalian sera during development of the embryo and the dominant serum proteins in early embryonic life. They reappear in the adult serum during certain pathologic states,primarily hepatocellular carcinoma. They may also be elevated in the amniotic fluid and maternal serum during pregnancy in ANENCEPHALY.

• Thus fetuin-A is a potent inhibitor of pathological calcification.
• Mice deficient in fetuin-A show systemic calcification of soft tissues.
• Fetuin-A is therefore regarded as a potent inhibitor of systemic calcification.
• Since then the biologic roles attributed to fetuin-A have increased exponentially.
• Hence fetuin-A is a predictor of adverse glycemic outcomes in pre-diabetes.
• Fetuin-A in contrast has also been demonstrated to have anti-inflammatory properties.
• Knocking out the gene for fetuin-A rendered the mice completely fetuin-A deficient.
• Knocking out the gene for fetuin-A rendered the mice completely fetuin-A deficient.
• Fetuin-A was originally discovered to be an inhibitor of vascular calcification in early 1990s.
• The function of Fetuin-A in the body was determined by gene knockout technology in mice.

• "fetuin" meaning in Chinese: 胎球蛋白
• "fetuin" meaning in Japanese: fetuin フェチュイン[医生]; フェツイン[医生]
• "fetuin" meaning in French: fétuine