Modification of transport function of plasma albumin during atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus.

Parameters characterizing the processes of association, transport, and dissociation of fatty acid molecules on the corresponding binding sites of plasma albumin in patients with atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus were studied by electron paramagnetic resonance method. In these patients transport function of albumin differed from normal. It should be emphasized that these differences were specific for atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus, which is of considerable diagnostic value.