albumin

IPA: æɫbjˈumʌn

(biochemistry) Any of a class of monomeric proteins that are soluble in water, and are coagulated by heat; they occur in egg white, milk etc; they function as carrier protein for steroids, fatty acids, and thyroid hormones and play a role in stabilizing extracellular fluid volume.

Examples of "albumin" in Sentences

A large portion of the protein of the potato is albumin, which is soluble in water.
The liver produces a major protein in the blood called albumin, which is key to regulating the fluid balance within our bodies.
I tell my patients to think of the liver as a factory that synthesizes a variety of products, including a protein called albumin.
This peptide had an electrophoretic mobility on starch gel just greater than serum albumin, which is about half that of HG (20, 21).
Not sure if it's that clear in this photo, but the albumin is a lot more gelatinous and more tightly bound to the yolk then with normal chicken eggs.
So, instead of seeing ingredients like albumin, which is a particular protein derived from eggs, you will actually see on the nutrition label ingredients from eggs.
If the white is collected by itself in water and then heated it becomes turbid, forming a white solid, very similar to the vegetable albumin, which is called animal albumin.
Abraxane is the cancer drug paclitaxel bound to particles of a protein called albumin, allowing it to reach tumors more effectively and making it more tolerable compared to plain paclitaxel.