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A different view on human albumin—authors reply
Linus Pauling Institute, Oregon State University, 571 Weniger Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
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Received 7 February 2003; accepted 11 February 2003
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We thank Drs Nohe and Dieterich for their comments on our recent article in this journal, in which we reported that physiological concentrations of bovine serum albumin (BSA) and recombinant human serum albumin (HSA) selectively inhibit TNF
-induced expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 (VCAM-1) in human aortic endothelial cells [1]. In contrast, neither E-selectin nor intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) expression were inhibited by BSA [1]. We