Concentration and electrophoretic properties of blood serum albumin of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus caught in Black Sea and Azov Sea were studied in relation to age, sex, maturation stage and season. Electrophoretic mobility of serum albumin in Black Sea fish increased with age, while in Azov Sea goby it varied less. No differences were observed in albumin characteristics between femal...

Malnutrition has been widely regarded as a healthcare problem among elderly people. The serum albumin level is usually used to assess nutritional status, with less than 3.5g/dl of serum albumin concentration defined as ''hypoalbuminemia''. Low serum albumin level was related with poor health status among not only institutionalized or hospitalized elderly people, but also community-dwelling elde...

The interaction between bovine serum albumin (BSA) and methyl cinnamate (MC), an strawberry flavor compound, was investigated. We found that BSA and MC form complex with stoichiometry (n) equal 1, driven by system’s entropy increase and enthalpy reduce at pH 7.4, 5.0 and 3.5, with binding constants (Kb) in magnitude of 10 5 L.mol -1 . There was difference in variation of standard enthalpy of co...

To evaluate the re lat ionship be tween tumor burden and c i rculat ing immune complexes (IC) in ch i ldren with neurob lastoma (NBL), we studied sera col lected at intervals from pat ients with d isseminated (Stage III or IV) NBL. Sera from 10 of 12 pat ients conta ined IC by the Raji cell assay at some time dur ing the first 9 to 11 months of the study. H igher IC levels were observed in sera...

Microvessels isolated from rat epididymal fat exhibit differential vesicular ingestion rates for unmodified and non-enzymatically glycosylated rat albumin. While unmodified rat albumin is excluded from ingestion by endothelial micropinocytic vesicles, glycosylated albumin is avidly taken up by endocytosis. Interaction of albumin and glycosylated albumin with endothelium was studied with a doubl...