© 2003 by European Society of Cardiology
Copyright © 2003, European Society of Cardiology
A different view on human albumin
Laboratory for Vascular Biology, Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University Hospital Tuebingen, Hoppe-Seyler Str. 3, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany
boris.nohe@uni-tuebingen.de
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Received 3 December 2002; accepted 11 February 2003
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With great interest we have read the article by Zhang and Frei on the anti-inflammatory effects of human albumin in the September issue of this journal [1]. They report a downregulation of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) on albumin-treated human aortic endothelial cells which supports our previous results of a reduced