Chow BF, McKee CM. INTERACTION BETWEEN CRYSTALLINE PENICILLIN AND HUMAN PLASMA PROTEINS.
Science 2010;
101:67-8. [PMID:
17840922 DOI:
10.1126/science.101.2612.67]
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Abstract
Penicillin combines with human serum albumin, as demonstrated by dialysis experiments. Unlike the sulfonamfide-albumin complex, the penicillin-albumin possesses antibiotic activity. Such a complex can be freed of unbound penicillin by repeated precipitation at 50 per cent. alcohol and obtained as a dried powder. Mouse excretion studies indicated that the penicillin-albumin complex was excreted more slowly than the sodium salt of penicillin.
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