BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Animal studies showed that human albumin therapy is strongly neuroprotective in focal ischemia. The aim of our study was to determine if relatively high serum albumin level is associated with decreased risk of poor outcome in ischemic stroke patients. METHODS Seven hundred fifty-nine consecutive patients with acute ischemic stroke were included. Functional outcome was m...

A quantitative method was developed for the determination of proteins in aqueous solution. Under optimal conditions, the linear ranges of calibration curves for the determination of bovine serum albumin (BSA), human serum albumin (HSA) and egg albumin (Alb) were 01.13 μg ml-1, 0-1.17μg ml-1 and 0-1.13μg ml-1, respectively. The detection limits were 15.74 ng ml-1 for BSA, 23.34 ng ml-1 for HSA a...

Benzanthrone, a popular anthraquinone dye-intermediate is known to cause skin and other toxicological manifestations in industrial workers exposed to it. The uptake of benzanthrone through the systemic circulation, in the form of serum protein binding, was characterised by gel filtration and fluorescence quenching studies. Fractionation of benzanthrone-protein complex on Sephadex G-200 column r...