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Albumin: Is It a Play-Maker, a Carrier or Both?

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Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.

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Abstract

Albumin is a small highly symmetric, slightly heterogeneous protein weighting 67,000 D with a high cysteine content, composed by 584 aminoacids residues stabilized by 17 internal disulfide bridges. The complete aminoacid sequence maintains high homology through the species [1] and in humans, a relatively high polimorphism is present [2]. In the human genomic it has been found only one copy of the albumin gene on chromosome 4 in bands q11–22 [3].

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Mercuriali, F., Inghilleri, G. (1999). Albumin: Is It a Play-Maker, a Carrier or Both?. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2145-7_43

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