Proceedings of the Workshop on Albumin, February 12-13, 1975, Bethesda, Maryland
Author : James T. Sgouris
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Page : 372 pages
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Release : 1976
Category : Albumin
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Author : James T. Sgouris
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Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Albumin
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Page : 358 pages
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Release : 1976
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Page : 358 pages
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Release : 1975
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Author : James T. Sgouris
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Page : 358 pages
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Page : 358 pages
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Release : 1975
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Author : HHS Policy Information Center (U.S.)
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Page : 1494 pages
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Release : 1990
Category : Human services
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Author : United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 21,79 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Blood
ISBN : 1428923330
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Page : 248 pages
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Release : 1985
Category : Blood
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Page : 1932 pages
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Release : 1976
Category : Government publications
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Author : S.H. Yap
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9400997442
Albumin is the most abundant serum protein produced by the liver. In clinical practice the serum level of albumin continues to be used as an important marker of the presence, progress or ofthe improvement of many diseases, even though it is the complex end result of synthesis, degradation a. nd distribution between intra- and extravascular space. The clinical history of albumin began as early as in 1837, when Ancell first recognized "albumen" and noted that this protein is needed for trans port functions, for maintaining fluidity of the vascular system and for the prevention of edema. However, the important physiological properties of serum proteins and their role in the regulation ofthe oncotic pressure were demonstrated later by the physiologist E. H. Starling in 1895. In 1917 the clinician A. A. Epstein first described the edema in patients with the nephro tic syndrome as being a result of a very low level of serum albumin. Al though the determination of serum albumin concentration became more popular after Howe in 1921 introduced the technique of separation of serum globulins from albumin by sodium sulfate, the first preparations of human serum albumin were made available for clinical use in only 1941 by the development of plasma fractionation by Cohn and his coworkers at Harvard Medical School.