ALB and hepatoblastoma: Recently, Terada et al. reported that sericin had a similar effect on the proliferation of mammalian cells, e.g., human epithelial cells (HeLa), human hepatoblastoma cells (HepG2), rabbit cornea keratocytes (RC4), and murine hybridoma cells, as bovine serum albumin (Sato et al. 2011; Terada et al. 2002).