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On acid-base effects of albumin

Publication at Central Library of Charles University, Third Faculty of Medicine |
2021

Abstract

Buffers were defined by van Slyke as "substances which by their presence in solution increase the amount of acid or alkali that must be added to cause a unit change in pH" [2]. Plasma proteins, with albumin being the most abundant one, are regarded as effective buffers by modern textbooks of physiology.