Serum albumin

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Serum albumin

Serum albumin, often referred to simply as albumin, is the most abundant plasma protein in humans and other mammals. Albumin is essential for maintaining the osmotic pressure needed for proper distribution of body fluids between intravascular compartments and body tissues....
, often referred to simply as albumin, is the most abundant plasma protein in humans and other mammal

Mammal

Mammals are a class of vertebrate animals whose name is derived from their distinctive feature, mammary glands, with which they feed their young....
s. Albumin is essential for maintaining the osmotic pressure

Osmotic pressure

Osmotic pressure is the Fluid_statics#Hydrostatic_pressure produced by a difference in concentration between solutions on the two sides of a surface such as a differentially permeable membrane....
needed for proper distribution of body fluids between intravascular compartments and body tissues. It also acts as a plasma carrier by non-specifically binding several hydrophobic steroid hormones and as a transport protein for hemin

Hemin

Hemin is an iron-containing porphyrin.It is used in the management of porphyria attacks, particularly in acute intermittent porphyria.It is sometimes distinguished from "Hematin", which is hemoglobin with iron in ferric state....
and fatty acid

Fatty acid

In chemistry, especially biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid often with a long unbranched aliphatic tail , which is either saturation or Unsaturated compound....
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Serum albumin

Mammal

Osmotic pressure

Hemin

Fatty acid

In chemistry, especially biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid often with a long unbranched aliphatic tail , which is either saturation or Unsaturated compound....
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Types

The human version is human serum albumin
Human serum albumin

Human serum albumin is the most abundant protein in human blood plasma. It is produced in the liver. Albumin comprises about half of the blood serum protein....
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Bovine serum albumin
Bovine serum albumin

Bovine serum albumin, bovine albumin, BSA, also known as "Fraction V", is a serum albumin protein that has numerous biochemical applications including ELISAs , immunoblots, and immunohistochemistry....
, or BSA, is commonly used in immunodiagnostic procedures, clinical chemistry reagents, cell culture media, protein chemistry research and molecular biology
Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecule level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry....
laboratories (usually to leverage its non-specific protein binding properties).

Function

Major contributors to colloid osmotic pressure of plasma; carriers for various substances

Serum albumin

Types

Function

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