Abstract Introduction Vasoplegic syndrome (VS) is one of the most common unexpected complications following cardiothoracic surgery, approaching a 25% mortality rate. No standardized methods for diagnosing VS are available. A biomarker valuable tool in all fields medicine, especially cardiovascular disease when patient has to undergo invasive surgery as on-pump CABG. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been...

Human serum albumin (HSA) is the most abundant plasma protein in the human body. HSA plays an important role in drug transport and metabolism. This protein has a high affinity to a very wide range of materials, including metals such as Cu2+ and Zn2+, fatty acids, amino acids and metabolites such as bilirubin and many drug compounds. In this study, we investigated the effects of co-amoxiclav, as...

The present study used microarray analysis to screen the plasma expression of microRNAs (miRNAs) in patients with acute Kawasaki disease (KD) and aimed to explore the pathogenesis of KD. Plasma was collected from children with acute KD (n=6) and from healthy control children (n=6). Total RNA was extracted and differential miRNA expression between the two groups was determined. Differentially ex...

Familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia (FDH) is an autosomal dominant syndrome in which clinically euthyroid patients have elevated total thyroxine levels. These high serum thyroxine levels are traceable to altered binding of thyroxine to the patient's albumin. Albumin from FDH patients and normal volunteers have been purified. Reverse-phase and ion-exchange high performance liquid chromatog...

BACKGROUND Non-coding RNA molecules, such as microRNAs, may play an important role in carcinogenesis. Recent studies have indicated that microRNAs are involved in initiation and progression of various malignancies. However, little work has been done to compare the microRNA expression patterns in oral cancer. In this study, we constructed an animal model of oral squamous cell carcinoma to invest...

Nanoparticles (NPs) have been widely used in medical and therapeuticapplications. However, their albumin binding and their cytotoxicity assays havenot been well explored. In his study, the interaction of NiO NPs with human serumalbumin (HSA) was explored by circular dichroism (CD) study, molecular dockingand dynamic studies. Afterwards the cytotoxicity of NiO NPs against...

Human serum albumin (HSA) is used clinically as a plasma expander in patients with hypoalbuminemia and can also function as a drug carrier. However, the administered HSA is readily eliminated from the blood circulation under pathological conditions, especially the nephrotic syndrome. In this study, we present data on the pharmacokinetics of a structurally defined HSA dimer [two HSA molecules th...

Harmony search algorithm (HSA) is a recent evolutionary algorithm used to solve several optimization problems. The algorithm mimics the improvisation behaviour of a group of musicians to find a good harmony. Several variations of HSA have been proposed to enhance its performance. In this paper, a new variation of HSA that uses multi-parent crossover is proposed (HSA-MPC). In this technique thre...

Human serum albumin (HSA) binds with fatty acids under normal physiologic conditions. To date, there is little published information on the tertiary structure of HSA-fatty acid complex in aqueous solution. In the present study, we used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to elucidate possible structural changes of HSA brought about by the binding of fatty acids. Both unliganded HSA and HSA-fatt...