Human serum albumin (HSA) is one of the most frequent treatments in patients with
decompensated cirrhosis. Prevention of paracentesis-induced circulatory dysfunction …

Although Albumin (ALB) and alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP) have distinctive structural and
functional characteristics, they both play a key role in binding a large variety of endogenous …

Liver disease is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Patients with cirrhosis display
an increased predisposition to and mortality from infection due to multimodal defects in the …

Recent studies of moonlighting functions and catalytic promiscuity provide insights into the
structural and mechanistic bases of these phenomena. Moonlighting proteins that are …

Background: Clinical diagnoses were correlated with results of a Co (II)–albumin binding
assay in 167 patients treated at an emergency department of a health maintenance …

The metabolism of albumin in inflammatory states such as sepsis or major surgery is
complex and still not well characterized. Nevertheless, in inflammatory states, albumin …

Candida albicans is an opportunistic dimorphic fungus that inhabits various host mucosal
sites. Conversion from the yeast to the hyphal form has been associated with increased …

This book explores gene sharing—a term originally coined to describe the observation that
structural proteins (called crystallins) responsible for the transparent and refractive …

Background Human serum albumin and some of its ligand complexes possess enzymatic
properties which are useful both in vivo and in vitro. Scope of review This review …

Background Human serum albumin is the principal protein in human serum. It participates in
regulation of plasma oncotic pressure and transports endogenous and exogenous ligands …