Alpha Globulin | A-Z of the Human Body

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

Dr. Mike Todorovic

Physiology, Physiotherapy, Health & Fitness, University, Science, Nursing, Education, Health, Anatomy, Medicine

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🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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'A' - Todays term from the Anatomy & Physiology textbook is " Alpha Globulin ".

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0:00.0	Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr Matt and Dr Mike's A to Z of the human body.
0:13.3	Today we are on the letter A and the term that we are talking about is what Matt, because I've forgotten already.
0:19.5	Alpha globulin.
0:20.8	Alpha globulin. So still only've forgotten already. Alpha globulin. Alpha globulin.
0:21.9	So still only alphas, but alpha globulin.
0:25.0	So we've covered...
0:26.6	We've covered alpha before.
0:28.7	Yeah.
0:28.9	So alpha's just the start of the Greek alphabet.
0:31.6	Yep.
0:32.6	Now, globulin, what does that mean?
0:35.0	Well, I remember in the last episode, I spoke about alpha globulins as being proteins that migrate
0:41.8	to a particular band during electrophoresis.
0:45.0	And there's a group of them that tells you nothing about their function.
0:48.4	It just tells you about their size.
0:50.0	Yes.
0:50.8	Am I correct?
0:51.6	Yep.
0:51.8	But the term globulin, which is all I wanted.
0:54.2	Oh, sorry. Comes from the term globular, which is all I wanted. Oh, sorry.
0:54.8	Comes from the term globulus, which just means small globe.
1:00.3	Oh, okay.
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