Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Serum Albumin

Serum albumin is the most abundant protein in human blood plasma, produced by the liver and circulating throughout the body. It performs several essential functions: it maintains the oncotic pressure that keeps fluid within blood vessels, and it serves as a carrier that binds and transports hormones, fatty acids, ca…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 97× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2372-6601 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Serum albumin is the most abundant protein in human blood plasma, produced by the liver and circulating throughout the body. It performs several essential functions: it maintains the oncotic pressure that keeps fluid within blood vessels, and it serves as a carrier that binds and transports hormones, fatty acids, calcium, drugs, and other substances. Because the liver makes albumin and its level reflects both production and loss, serum albumin is a widely used clinical biomarker. Low levels can indicate impaired liver function, kidney disease with protein loss, inflammation, or poor nutritional status, and in hematology and oncology a reduced albumin level is often associated with malnutrition, the systemic effects of cancer, and a less favorable prognosis. Conditions such as cancer-related cachexia and chronic kidney disease requiring dialysis are frequently accompanied by changes in albumin and related markers of nutrition and inflammation, themes reflected in research on this topic. Measuring serum albumin is therefore valuable for assessing overall health, guiding nutritional support, and helping to evaluate the severity and course of disease. As a topic within hematology and oncology research, serum albumin links protein metabolism to clinical assessment. This page gathers peer-reviewed, open-access research relevant to serum albumin, nutritional status, and biochemical markers of disease.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 97 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Serum Albumin, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Hematology and Oncology Research (ISSN 2372-6601).

Journal editorial board
Jayadev Manikkam Umakanthan · United States Shuaiying Cui · United States Benedetto Sacchetti · Italy

This page summarises published research for orientation; it is not medical or professional advice.