Article
Serum albumin.
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) - 1 Jan 2000
Rothschild M A, Oratz M, Schreiber S S
Abstract excerpt
The liver manufactures albumin at a massive rate and decreases production in times of environmental, nutritional, toxic and trauma stress. Osmotic pressure is a basic evolutionary regulatory factor, and hormonal control over albumin production has been demonstrated. Where and why new or old album...
Topics
- Aging
- Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
- Animals
- Chemical Phenomena
- Chemistry
- Disease
- Ethanol
- Genetic Variation
- Hormones
- Humans
- Intracellular Membranes
- Liver Cirrhosis, Experimental
- Serum Albumin
- Stress, Physiological
- Temperature