CD44 and neoplasm: One protein that differed in meat from WEAN-W and CHIC-W lambs, other than some myofibrillar proteins, was heparan sulfate proteoglycan, which is a heavily glycosylated protein that binds to a variety of protein ligands and regulates a wide range of biological activities, including developmental processes, angiogenesis, blood coagulation, and tumour metastasis [39,40].