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Albumin
[L. albus - white]. In reference to development, the egg white of birds eggs formed in the oviduct before the addition of the shell. It provides protein and water to the developing embryo and protection from microorganisms.
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human serum albumin
bovine serum albumin (cattle serum albumin) or BSA, often used in medical and molecular biology labs
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Albumin
You may be looking for albumen, or egg white.
Albumin is a blood plasma protein that is produced in the liver and forms a large proportion of all plasma protein. It is also found in egg white.
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albumin Any of a large class of simple proteins that are important constituents of vertebrate blood plasma and tissue fluids and also present in milk, whites of eggs, and other animal substances.
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Chicken Ovalbumin
This is the major protein in the "white" of the egg (and a favorite antigen in immunological research).
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albumin 66.3 kDa protein comprising most of the protein in serum and largely responsible for buffering pH and volume of blood. alcohol fermentation The anaerobic conversion of glucose to ethanol via anaerobic glycolysis. See also fermentation.
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[2] "Charge State Shifting of Individual Multiply-Charged Ions of Bovine Albumin Dimer and Molecular Weight Determination Using an Individual-Ion Approach," X. Cheng, R. Bakhtiar, S. Van Orden, and R. D. Smith, Anal. Chem., 66, 2084-2087 (1994).
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Ovalbumin cDNA had been cloned and analyzed. There were no EcoRI or HindIII sites in the cDNA. Yet when the cDNA was used to probe Southern blots of EcoRI and HindIII digests of chicken genomic DNA, Chambon and coworkers found 8 bands.
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Symptoms include weakness, weight loss, fatigue, abdominal swelling due to fluid accumulation, and tenderness and enlargement of the liver. Tests for prolonged prothrombin time and decreased albumin are among those used to detect cirrhosis.
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Other therapeutic proteins being considered for production by transgenic animals include human hemoglobin, human serum albumin, tissue plasminogen activator (used to treat stroke), ...
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