ALB and acute kidney injury: In the present work, a subclinical AKI model characterized by overload of albumin in PTs without changing glomerular function was used (Ronco et al., 2012; Portella et al., 2013; Abreu et al., 2014; Landgraf et al., 2014; Teixeira et al., 2019; Vanmassenhove et al., 2019).