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The interorgan exchange of amino acids and ammonia and the effect of plasmapheresis in acute liver failure
Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF), defined as the appearance of hepatic encephalopathy (HE) in a patient with acute liver failure (ALF) within 14 days of first sign of liver disease, is a dramatic, life threaten...
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Gc-globulin is an acute phase reactant and an indicator of muscle injury after spinal surgery
Objectives and Design: Actin is the dominating protein in mammalian cells, including muscle cells, and is released into the circulation after tissue injury. Gc-globulin, one of the prote...
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Differences between the Calculated Fraction Available for BBB Transport and the in Vitro Measured Free Fraction Could be Explained by Capillary Heterogeneity
It has earlier been shown that presence of albumin in the brain capillaries apparently enhances uptake of protein bound substances (Pardridge and Fierer, J. Neurochem. 54: 971–976,1990; Pardridge and Landaw, Am. ...