Background: Albumin is a marker of nutritioinal inflammation and mortality. Chronic inflammation, as indicated by the concentration proinflammatory cytokine, high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) was reported to be in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients. Channa striata (CS) contains that can increase albumin levels has anti-inflammatory effects. This study conducted determine effect ...

Whipple's disease commonly presents as chronic diarrhea and abdominal pain. Ascites is an uncommon presentation of Whipple's disease. Here, we report a rare case of a 47-year-old male who presented with diarrhea and abdominal distention for three months. The physical examination was significant for ascites. Serum albumin was low and serum-to-ascites albumin gradient was < 1.1 g/dl. This suggest...

Spleen cells from mice infected with scrapie virus were separated into subpopulations on the basis of buoyant density in discontinuous gradients of isotonic albumin or differential adherence of cells to plastic. At three different intervals after infection, a population of "less dense" cells was found in albumin gradients that had 40-to 60-fold higher specific infectivity (cells per median leth...

The growth rate and albumin concentration of interstitial fluid cuffs were measured in isolated rabbit lungs inflated with albumin solution (3 g/dl) to constant airway (Paw) and vascular pressures for up to 10 h. Cuff size was measured from images of frozen lung sections, and cuff albumin concentration (Cc) was measured from the fluorescence of Evans blue labeled albumin that entered the cuffs ...

Albumin, a major serum protein synthesized and secreted by the liver, is one of several serum proteins whose synthesis is regulated by hormonal and nutritional factors as well as during liver development. As a part of our studies on the regulation of serum protein synthesis, we have isolated mouse albumin mRNA by direct immunoprecipitation of albumin-synthesizing polysomes and oligo(dT)-cellulo...