
Also known as tropoelastin, ELN, Elastin
thumb|200x200px|Thick elastic fibers consisting of bundles of elastin in the human lung Elastin is a protein encoded by the ELN gene in humans and several other animals. Elastin is a key component in the extracellular matrix of gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates). It is highly elastic and present in connective tissue of the body to resume its shape after stretching or contracting. Elastin helps skin return to its original position whence poked or pinched. Elastin is also in important load-bearing tissue of vertebrates and used in places where storage of mechanical energy is required.
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エラスチン(英: Elastin)もしくは弾性繊維(だんせいせんい)とはコラーゲンの繊維を支える役割を持つ繊維である。ヒトのエラスチン含有量は、で約78~80%、動脈で約50%、肺で約20%、真皮で約2~5%を占める。ヒトだけでなく、ブタやウシ、ウマなどの哺乳類やその他では魚類などにも含まれている。エラスチンは皮膚や血管では年齢と共に減少し皺の原因となる。
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).