Serum albumin, bovine definition

No definitive study of the effects of protein carrier on response is available, and many carrier proteins have been used, including globulins, albumin, hemocyanin, thyroglobulin, and fibrinogen. The optimal number of haptens, or the epitope density, is also controversial, but a density of 8 to 25 haptens per bovine serum albumin molecule is probably optimal (12),... 

In addition to the two examples described above, IR spectrometric methods have been applied to a few proteins, such as bovine serum albumin (BS A) (14,15) or lysozyme (16). They provided hydration mechanisms similar to those described above, but the relation between the determined structure of the H-bond network at a definite hygrometry and properties of... 

In our work [103] the adsorption of a-chymotrypsin and bovine serum albumin at the hydrophobic surface of fluoroplast and at the hydrophilic silica has been investigated. In a tube 0.3 ml the adsorbent in an amount of 75-80 mg was induced (as a suspension in the case of hydrophobic adsorbent), than 5 ml of the protein solution of definite concentration was induced in a tube, carefully stirred during 2 hours and than centrifugated. The range of concentrations varying was 0.1-0.9 mg/ml for a-chymotrypsin and 0.2-3 mg/ml for BSA. Results are given in Table 5. 

In considering plasma as protein food its metabolism when injected intravenously must necessarily be compared with the behavior of the same protein when taken by mouth, inasmuch as there is such a difference in the mechanisms involved. Study of the nutritional value of plasma protein when given by mouth has resulted in a variety of results. For example, it has been shown (52) that following oral administration positive balance can be achieved in dop with precipitated washed bovine serum at a level comparable to that of casein. This same worker (53) as well as others (77, 80) has shown that beef serum by mouth is of high nutritional value in respect to plasma protein regeneration in protein depleted dop. On the other hand, powth experiments with human plasma have definitely shown nutritional deficiencies (10, 37) which are confined to the albumin fraction. By contrast, globulin and fibrin are of high nutritive value. The deficiency in albumin apparently is due to a lack of isoleucine and tryptophan this was shown not only... 

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