How to Use albumin in a Sentence

albumin

noun

• The albumin (or white) of an egg delivers close to 6 grams of protein.
  — Amy Brothers, The Denver Post, 11 May 2017
• As salmon cooks, the protein albumin oozes from the flesh and solidifies, forming white streaks on your fish.
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• Total testosterone includes all testosterone (free testosterone as well as all the testosterone bound to the two proteins in the blood, albumin and SHBG).
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2018
• The machine is a small crate-sized device filled with albumin, a protein that binds to toxins and is normally made by the liver.
  — Meredith Cohn, baltimoresun.com, 10 Sep. 2017
• The trick was in adding long fatty acid chains that grabbed onto albumin — the most abundant protein found in the blood — allowing the GLP-1 lookalike to hide from enzymes that would chop it up.
  — Megan Molteni and Elaine Chen, STAT, 30 Sep. 2023
• Your doctor can also check your urine for blood or albumin, which may also be signs of kidney disease.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• To prevent excess albumin, don’t overcook your salmon (the hotter the fish, the more albumin production).
  — Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2024
• When the albumin showed up, other experiments showed us, TGFβ started to get active.
  — Daniela Kaufer, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• The original hard SweeTarts are vegan, but the chewy variety are not (they're made with egg albumin).
  — Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health.com, 16 Oct. 2020
• Second is testosterone loosely bound to albumin (a protein in the blood) which can be used but is not as immediately available as free testosterone.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 17 May 2018
• The kidney filters then become leaky, allowing larger essential proteins such as albumin to escape from the blood and pass into the urine.
  — Stephen S. Hall, Science | AAAS, 19 Apr. 2018
• If your urine has white foam, this usually indicates high levels of albumin, a protein usually found in small amounts in your urine, says Dr. Leisman.
  — Hallie Levine, Health.com, 23 Nov. 2021
• In 1991, Soon-Shiong came up with a way to wrap a cancer drug, Taxol, inside the human protein albumin, boosting its efficiency, and called it Abraxane.
  — John Wilkens, Pomerado News, 13 Apr. 2018
• In order to bridge the gap, the team modified the small vaccine components to include a fatty acid, which enables the vaccine to effectively hitch a ride on albumin, a common protein found throughout the body.
  — Jaimie Seaton, Scientific American, 13 Feb. 2024
• The affected mice also had more trouble remembering their way through mazes than did their younger and relatively albumin-free counterparts.
  — Daniela Kaufer, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2021
• Nephritis is characterized by positive test for urinary albumin and blood (hence the dark color), high blood pressure, fluid retention, and evidence of heart symptoms.
  — Philly.com, 24 Sep. 2017
• The organoid also pumped out standard human liver proteins, including albumin and transferrin.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 22 July 2017
• The organization recommends two main tests: the glomerular filtration rate and urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio tests.
  — Kendall Ross, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Crafted with a natural formula containing taurine, acetyl-L-carnitine, dandelion extract, Hawthorne berry extract, bilberry extract, egg albumin, and coenzyme Q10, these chews are designed to nourish your aging canine's heart health.
  — Amber Smith, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• Even his laboratory results belied his smiling face: low potassium and albumin levels, suggesting starvation.
  — New York Times, 16 May 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024