creatine kinase
creatine kinase
nounDefinition of CREATINE KINASE
: any of three isoenzymes found especially in vertebrate skeletal and myocardial muscle that catalyze the transfer of a high-energy phosphate group from phosphocreatine to ADP with the formation of ATP and creatine
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1964
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