The calcium-sensing receptor in normal physiology and pathophysiology: a review.

abstract：:Low molecular-mass plasma proteins play a key role in health and disease. Cystatin C is an endogenous cysteine proteinase inhibitor belonging to the type 2 cystatin superfamily. The mature, active form of human cystatin C is a single non-glycosylated polypeptide chain consisting of 120 amino acid residues, with a mole...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Mussap M,Plebani M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostate cancer (PCa) is one of the most common age-related cancers among men. Various environmental and genetic factors are involved in the development and progression of PCa. In most cases, the primary symptoms of disease are not severe. Therefore, it is common for patients to be referred with severe clinical manife...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Ghayour-Mobarhan M,Ferns GA,Moghbeli M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartter's and Gitelman's syndromes can be used as models to gain insight into the mechanisms responsible for maintaining/controlling vascular tone. In fact, the study of patients with these syndromes provides important insights into mechanistic details of the most relevant pathways of vascular tone. So far, several ex...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Calò L,Davis PA,Semplicini A

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation now has an established place in the treatment of severe aplastic anemia and acute leukemia. Major problems to be overcome in transplantation in patients with aplastic anemia are marrow graft rejection and graft vs. host disease. Results are better in younger patients and in patie...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Weiden PL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with hepatitis delta virus (HDV), a satellite virus of hepatitis B virus (HBV), is associated with severe and sometimes fulminant hepatitis. The traditional methods for the diagnosis of HDV infection, such as detection of serum anti-HD antibodies, are sufficient for the clinical diagnosis of delta infection....

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Modahl LE,Lai MM

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reviewed are the phosphorylation events reporting activation of protein kinases and the key substrates critical for the DNA damage signaling (DDS). These DDS events are detected immunocytochemically using phospho-specific Abs; flow cytometry or image-assisted cytometry provide the means to quantitatively assess them o...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Darzynkiewicz Z,Zhao H,Halicka HD,Rybak P,Dobrucki J,Wlodkowic D

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophilia care depends on several factors for the production of purified FVIII: plasma procurement, plasma logistics, production method, and efficacy. The latter two are restrictive factors, both for the supply and the safety of FVIII preparations. Conventional production methodology unavoidably recovers only 10 to 2...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Smit Sibinga CT

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteocalcin is a small (Mr 5800), very interesting bone specific protein, synthesized by osteoblasts and measured in plasma as a biochemical indicator of bone formation. Many immunoassays for osteocalcin have been developed, including radio- and enzymoimmunoassays, with the use of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies....

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Power MJ,Fottrell PF

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infants with very low birthweights (less than 1250g) are immunocompromised and have immature hematopoietic systems. They require frequent blood transfusions and have an increased susceptibility to infection. These very low birthweight infants who lack passively acquired antibody against CMV, acquire transfusion-associ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Adler SP

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum stability of analytes in chemistry control materials is desired. Stability testing is customarily performed by manufacturers, both prior to distribution of products and during the period following distribution when the products are in the field. Users and evaluators of such materials periodically have reported...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Lawson NS,Haven GT,Williams GW

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Muscle wasting in patients with sepsis, severe injury, and cancer is associated with increased transcription of several genes regulating different proteolytic pathways. The involvement of gene activation in muscle wasting suggests that transcription factors and nuclear cofactors play important roles in the regulation ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Aversa Z,Alamdari N,Hasselgren PO

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density lipoprotein (HDL), the most abundant human plasma lipoprotein, plays a major role in reverse cholesterol transport, which recycles cholesterol from peripheral cells to the liver. HDL constitutes a heterogeneous group of particles differing in density, size, electrophoretic mobility, and apolipoprotein con...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Tailleux A,Fruchart JC

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in peripheral blood can serve as a "liquid biopsy" approach and has thus emerged lately as one of the hottest fields in cancer research. CTCs can be isolated from blood in a non-invasive approach, and can be used to follow patients over time since these cells can provide ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Lianidou ES,Strati A,Markou A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Despite pulmonary impairments being the most prevalent, extra-pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 are abundant. Confirmed COVID-19 cases have now surpassed 57.8 million worldwide as of 22 November 2020. ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Higgins V,Sohaei D,Diamandis EP,Prassas I

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcytic red blood cell states are common clinical problems in both adult and pediatric age groups. The recent widespread availability of electronic blood cell counters for performing routine blood counts has increased the detection of microcytic red blood cells. Physicians must workup both symptomatic and asymptoma...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Marsh WL Jr,Koenig HM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The substrate spectrum of human UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A (UGT1A) proteins includes the glucuronidation of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, anticonvulsants, chemotherapeutics, steroid hormones, bile acids, and bilirubin. The unique genetic organization of the human UGT1A gene locus, and an increasing number...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Strassburg CP,Kalthoff S,Ehmer U

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing (IEF) as a method for differentiating macromolecules with minor differences in isoelectric points has demonstrated an increase in the degree of genetic polymorphisms of the blood. Studies over the last 5 to 6 years have shown that genetic marker systems such as transferrin (TF), phosphoglucomutase...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Dykes DD,Polesky HF

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review focuses on the laboratory biochemical tests that are useful in the diagnostic approach to the hypertensive patient. A "minimal" diagnostic laboratory work-up, including a small number of tests that are simple and relatively inexpensive, is first described. Because these tests provide basic information on t...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Seccia TM,Rossi GP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There have been major advances in our understanding of thrombosis and antithrombotic drugs. This review focuses on the molecular aspects of thrombus formation and antithrombotic therapy. Molecules involved in arterial thrombosis are derived from inflammatory cells in the atherosclerotic plaque and blood platelets. The...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Wu KK,Matijevic-Aleksic N

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coupling of hematologic data with radionuclide studies of the spleen has provided information as to the functioning of the organ in a variety of disease states. The major radionuclide studies have been presented in terms of the type of information derivable and the various conditions that can result in fairly simi...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Spencer RP,Gupta SM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most clinical chemical analytes vary in a random manner around a homeostatic set point. Replicate analyses of a series of specimens collected from a group of subjects allows estimation of analytical, within and between subject components of variation. The preferred experimental procedures and statistical methods for e...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Fraser CG,Harris EK

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin D has been attributed roles in the pathogenesis and prevention of several diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, autism and autoimmune diseases. The concomitant expression of the 25-hydroxyvitamin D3-1α-hydroxylase and of the vitamin D3 receptor in animal and human tissu...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Delvin E,Souberbielle JC,Viard JP,Salle B

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The CK-BB isoenzyme is ubiquitous in neoplastic tissue, but with low activity. Accordingly, it might be a nonspecific and insensitive tumor marker. Evaluation of BB isoenzyme in serum might indicate the extent of diseases or the response to therapy. The presence of CK-MB in patients with cancers may cause confusion wi...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Tsung JS

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of vitamin D receptor (VDR) expression in immune cells has opened up a new area of research into immunoregulation by vitamin D, a niche that is distinct from its classical role in skeletal health. Today, about three decades since this discovery, numerous cellular and molecular targets of vitamin D in the...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Sarkar S,Hewison M,Studzinski GP,Li YC,Kalia V

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are the two principal forms of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Animal studies show that bacteria are involved in the etiology of IBD, and much is now known about the inflammatory processes associated with CD and UC, as well as the underlying genetic, environmental, an...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Macfarlane S,Steed H,Macfarlane GT

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This manuscript offers a broad overview of the state of emergency toxicology testing in clinical laboratories. We summarize the specific challenges of performing emergency toxicology testing, introduce a variety of currently used methods including mass spectrometry, and compare and contrast the utility of different ty...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Van Wijk XMR,Goodnough R,Colby JM

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the ever growing collection of data concerning the function of the immune system in patients with epidermoid carcinoma of the head and neck, the precise mechanism by which these tumors effect the body's surveillance against foreign antigen is as yet unidentified. If these specific immunological characteristics...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Newbill ET,Johns ME

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gas-liquid chromatography (GLC) continues to find increasing applications in the characterization of microorganisms and the diseases associated with them. GLC has been used to characterize microorganisms through qualitative and quantitative analyses of cellular structural components and soluble extracts and metabolic ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Edman DC,Craven RB,Brooks JB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoforms of the receptor for advanced glycation end-product (RAGE) protein, which lack the transmembrane and the signaling (soluble RAGE or sRAGE) domains are hypothesized to counteract the detrimental action of the full-length receptor by acting as a decoy, and they provide a potential tool to treat RAGE-associated d...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Steenbeke M,De Bruyne S,De Buyzere M,Lapauw B,Speeckaert R,Petrovic M,Delanghe JR,Speeckaert MM

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrone sulfate (E1S) is the most abundant circulating estrogen and it has the potential to be used as a biomarker in certain conditions where estimation of low levels of estrogen or changes in relative levels of estrogens are important. This review will critically consider the role of estimating E1S for clinical labo...

journal_title：Critical reviews in clinical laboratory sciences

authors： Rezvanpour A,Don-Wauchope AC

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00