A protein or chemical substance related to or derived from arterial tissue, studied in biochemical research on blood vessels.
From 'arteria' (artery) with the chemical suffix '-in' (indicating a protein or organic compound), a term created in 20th-century biochemistry for arterial-derived substances.
Scientists created 'arterin' to name mysterious proteins they found in arteries—similar to how 'insulin' is from the islets of Langerhans—showing how research often names things after where they're discovered!
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