"Avidin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
A specific protein in egg albumin that interacts with BIOTIN to render it unavailable to mammals, thereby producing biotin deficiency.
Descriptor ID |
D001360
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MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.034.614.300 D12.776.256.317.663.300 D12.776.290.663.100 D12.776.395.175
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Smoking accelerates biotin catabolism in women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2004 Oct; 80(4):932-5.
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Differential expression of the bcl-2 oncogene in human basal cell carcinoma. Hum Pathol. 1996 Apr; 27(4):355-9.