What's the difference between albumin and albuminuria?
Albumin
Definition:
(n.) A thick, viscous nitrogenous substance, which is the chief and characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water and is coagulated by heat and by certain chemical reagents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Trifluoroacetylated rabbit serum albumin was 5 times more reactive with these antibodies and thus more antigenic than the homologous acetylated moiety confirming the importance of the trifluoromethyl moiety as an epitope in the immunogen in vivo.
(2) In the presence of insulin, a qualitatively similar pattern of increasing responses to albumin is observed; the enhancement of each response by insulin is, however, only slightly potentiated by higher albumin concentrations.
(3) Zinc in plasma and urine and serum albumin and alpha 2-macroglobulin were measured in 48 patients with burns.
(4) We have measured the antibody specificities to the two polysaccharides in sera from asymptomatic group C meningococcal carriers and vaccinated adults by a new enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) procedure using methylated human serum albumin for coating the group C polysaccharide onto microtiter plates.
(5) Anthropometric and nutritional (serum albumin and transferrin) values were normal in both groups both at the beginning and at the end of the treatment period.
(6) Agarose-albumin beads may be useful for removing protein-bound substances from the blood of patients with liver failure, intoxication with protein-bound drugs, or specific metabolic deficits.
(7) In patients who had undergone gastric operations, the efficacy of a parenteral rehabilitation with plasma, human albumin and Aminofusin L forte was determined by assessing the extravascular albumin pool.
(8) No significant difference was found for triglycerides, uric acid, albumin and gamma-globulins.
(9) Unbound fractions was significantly correlated with serum albumin concentration (r = -0.344, p less than 0.046) and renal clearance (r = 0.394, p less than 0.021) but not with total body clearance or volume of distribution.
(10) Since the molecular weight of IgG is more than twice that of albumin and transferrin, it is concluded that the protein loss in Ménétrier's disease is nonselective in the sense that it affects a similar fraction of the intravascular masses of all plasma proteins.
(11) While the reduced form of the "derived" polyphenolic compounds, generated during tissue homogenization, appeared to enhance dye binding with bovine serum albumin, their influence on the protein assay directly in crude homogenates was extremely diverse.
(12) The antigens tested included bovine serum albumin, gamma-globulin, and ribonuclease.
(13) We could not find any correlation between TBG and serum albumin, gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase and mean corpuscular volume.
(14) With both approaches, carbohydrate and fat had little influence whereas egg albumin had a significant inhibitory effect on the absorption of nonheme iron.
(15) The specificity of the assay was established by competitive displacement of 125I-labeled arginine-rich protein from its antiserum by arginine-rich protein and lipoproteins containing this protein, but not by rat albumin or other purified apolipoproteins.
(16) Immune arthritis in sensitized rabbits was induced by intraarticular injection of bovine serum albumin.
(17) We evaluated the effect of glycated albumin on phenytoin protein binding in 36 elderly (age range 63-94 yrs) patients with type II diabetes mellitus (DM) under diet management.
(18) Because isosmolar albumin solution is easier to prepare than hyperosmolar cryoprecipitated plasma and gives comparable results, it remains our perfusate of choice for continuous perfusion preservation.
(19) We found that when neutrophils were allowed to settle into protein-coated surfaces the amount of O2- they generated varied with the nature of the protein: IgG greater than bovine serum albumin greater than plastic greater than gelatin greater than serum greater than collagen.
(20) The specificity of the assay was further demonstrated by a lack of competition of cytochrome C, myoglobin, epidermal growth factor or bovine serum albumin with bFGF for binding to the antibodies.
Albuminuria
Definition:
(n.) A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was no correlation between albuminuria and blood pressure, nor was there a demonstrable clinical cause for the albuminuria in most patients.
(2) Abnormal albuminuria at levels not reliably detected by the usual dipstick methods was commonly observed in Pima Indians with diabetes, even those with diabetes of recent onset.
(3) Prekallikrein levels depended on the predominance of hypertensive disease or albuminuria occurrence.
(4) Early diabetes in Biobreeding rats is characterized by mild albuminuria and increased kidney size, but not glomerular hyperfiltration.
(5) In the first 12 weeks after onset of diabetes, albuminuria increased to a greater degree in SHR-STZ than in WKY-STZ.
(6) In order to assess non-vascular risk factors for foot ulceration 64 patients were stratified into four groups: microalbuminuria, albuminuria with creatinine clearance greater than 40 ml min-1, chronic renal failure (clearance less than 40 ml min-1), and a non-nephropathic diabetic control group.
(7) Short- and long-term therapy with CEI lowers or stabilizes albuminuria.
(8) The presence of albuminuria predicts cardiovascular events.
(9) Albuminuria of this degree has been inappropriately called "microalbuminuria," a misleading term which should be abandoned.
(10) All these findings indicated that the albuminuria in P. knowlesi-infected monkeys was due to the increased glomerular capillary permeability to plasma albumin, although the tubular reabsorptive capacity increased but could not cope with a very high filtered load, therefore, excess albumin was detected in the urine.
(11) Attention has been focused on the development of a simple, reproducible, specific, and, above all, sensitive method to detect albuminuria in the urine.
(12) Aminoguanidine attenuated the rise in albuminuria and prevented mesangial expansion without influencing GBM thickness in diabetic rats.
(13) Although both enalapril and losartan reduce ANG II activity, only the converting enzyme inhibitor reduces albuminuria.
(14) We studied the effects of perindopril, an angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor administered during 12 months, on creatinine clearance, albuminuria and glycaemic control in diabetic subjects with mild to moderate hypertension.
(15) In addition, administration of scavengers of reactive oxygen metabolites, such as catalase and desferrioxamine, did not prevent the albuminuria in this model.
(16) Whilst albuminuria was not significantly different from controls we found an increased microheterogeneity of urinary albumin in 38% of patients.
(17) Enalapril-treated OZR had less albuminuria and lower blood pressure, but Pgc was not reduced.
(18) In long-term (70 weeks) studies, DM rats exhibited progressive albuminuria and marked glomerular sclerosis.
(19) Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors decrease albuminuria in patients with diabetic nephropathy.
(20) Besides increased albuminuria the appearance of low molecular weight proteins in urine and in 50% gamma globulinuria are further criteria for the rejection crisis.