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Human Serum Albumin
drug data and news
Human Serum Albumin drug data, resources, and news articles (when available). Onconews.org provides news on cancer research. This section, which includes profiles on medicines that may or not be cancer-related is in beta form. If things run smoothly we will be releasing a new format late in the summer of 2006.
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| Generic name | Human Serum Albumin | ||
| Brand Names/Synonyms | Serum albumin precursor; Albutein (Alpha Therapeutic Corp) | ||
| Indication | For treatment of severe blood loss, hypervolemia, hypoproteinemia | ||
| Sponsored links | Description | Human serum albumin isolated from expired blood plasma | |
| Pharmacology | Regulates the colloidal osmotic pressure of blood. It is used to increase the circulating plasma volume, thereby reducing hemoconcentrtion and blood viscosity. Also used as a transport protein that binds naturally occurring, therapeutic and toxic materials in circulation. | ||
| Mechanism Of Action | Acts as a high molecular weight, very soluble osmolyte | ||
| Human Serum Albumin News (When available) |
Monsters and Critics.com, ...'We replaced the calf serum with human serum albumin, but it didn`t work well enough, so we supplemented it with lipids and five separate factors: human TGF ... | ||
| Dosage Forms | SOLUTION | ||
| Drug_Category | Serum substitutes; blood derivatives (16:00.00) | ||
| Absorption | Not Available | ||
| Interactions | Not Available | ||
| Toxicity | Not Available | ||
| Organisms Affected | Humans and other mammals | ||
| Chemical IUPAC Name | Human serum albumin | ||
| Chemical Formula | C2936H4624N786O889S41 | ||
| Molecular Weight | 66472.2 | ||
| Smiles String | Not Available | ||
| Melting Point | 62 oC (Flora, K. et al., Biophys J. 75:1084-1096 (1998)) | ||
| Water Solubility | Not Available | ||
| State | Transparent, slightly viscous, aqueous liquid | ||
| LogP/Hphobicity | -0.395 | ||
| Isoelectric Point | 5.67 | ||
| Biotransformation | Not Available | ||
| Half Life | Not Available | ||
| Protein Binding [%] | Not Available | ||
| RxList Link | RXlist | ||
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| Drug Reference | http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic3/albumin.htm | ||
| Drug Type | Approved Drug | ||
| Accession No | BIOD00059 | ||
| CAS Registry Number | 9048-49-1 | ||
| KEGG Compound ID | Not Available | ||
| PubChem ID | Not Available | ||
| PharmGKB ID | Not Available | ||
| SwissProt ID | ALBU_HUMAN (P02768) | ||
| GenBank ID | M12523 | ||
| Drug ID Number [DIN] | 427675 |
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