PATHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Albumin is a protein made by your liver. Albumin enters your bloodstream and helps keep fluid from leaking out of your blood vessels into other tissues. It is also carries hormones, vitamins, and enzymes throughout your body.

Detailed explanation-2: -Albumin is a protein made by the liver. Albumin prevents fluid from leaking out of blood vessels into tissues.

Detailed explanation-3: -Serum albumin accounts for 55% of blood proteins, is a major contributor to maintaining the oncotic pressure of plasma and assists, as a carrier, in the transport of lipids and steroid hormones.

Detailed explanation-4: -Endogenous albumin is produced exclusively by liver cells (hepatocytes) at a rate of 9 to 12 g/day. Albumin is transported from hepatocytes by transcytosis. Some hepatocytes have direct access to blood flow in the liver. This allows immediate influence on COP.