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The blood's moving van — hauling hormones, drugs, and fatty acids without asking questions.
means A small, abundant protein made mainly in the liver that circulates in blood plasma, keeping fluid balance in check while ferrying various molecules through the bloodstream.
from From Latin albumen, meaning 'white of egg,' itself built from albus, 'white.' The word first described the literal egg white, prized since antiquity for turning opaque and solid when heated — a visible clue to the protein inside. Chemists later borrowed the term for any similar water-soluble protein that coagulates with heat, and it stuck to the one found in blood serum, long before anyone understood its true job as the body's chief molecular courier.
- blood share
- about half of all blood plasma protein
- job one
- keeps water from leaking out of vessels
- liver made
- synthesized nonstop unless the liver is failing
- low levels
- can signal malnutrition, kidney, or liver disease