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What does hemagglutinin mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) An antigenic glycoprotein that causes agglutination of red blood cells
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The different subtypes and strains of influenza viruses are distinguished by the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase antigens they possess.
In this study we monitored membrane ionic permeability at early stages of fusion mediated by the fusogenic protein influenza hemagglutinin.
The plants Chinese skullcap and ginger can stop infections there, as they are hemagglutinin inhibitors.
Most are made of a viral protein called hemagglutinin, which can latch onto cells that the virus seeks to enter.
Unfortunately, a traditional flu vaccine can protect against only flu viruses with a matching hemagglutinin protein.
The nonhomologous RNA recombination resulted in an enhanced hemagglutinin cleavability.

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