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The thiol pool in human plasma: the central contribution of albumin to redox processes.

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A critical review of the plasma thiol pool is provided with a focus on human serum albumin, an important target for oxidants and electrophiles due to its reactivity with a wide variety of species and its relatively high concentration.
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This article is published in Free Radical Biology and Medicine.The article was published on 2013-12-01 and is currently open access. It has received 519 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human serum albumin & Thiol.

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Evaluation of thiol-disulphide homeostasis in patients with chronic hepatitis B

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Evaluation of levels of oxidants and antioxidants stress markers in saliva and serum of patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS)

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Homocysteine and Cardiovascular Disease

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Albumin as a drug carrier: design of prodrugs, drug conjugates and nanoparticles.

TL;DR: This review gives an account of the different drug delivery systems which make use of albumin as a drug carrier with a focus on those systems that have reached an advanced stage of preclinical evaluation or that have entered clinical trials.
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