The Presage(®) ST2 Assay: analytical considerations and clinical applications for a high-sensitivity assay for measurement of soluble ST2.

abstract：:Recent progress in the development of molecular diagnostics in medicine has been rapid and the hope has been expressed by some people that it will soon be possible to have a detailed 'genetic readout' to assist in the diagnosis of treatment of a variety of diseases. However, such an outcome may be neither achievable n...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Hall AG,Coulthard SA,Irving JA

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of drug resistance remains one of the most challenging issues in the treatment of HIV-1 infection. The extreme replication dynamics of HIV facilitates its escape from the selective pressure exerted by the human immune system and by the applied combination drug therapy. This article reviews computational ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Cordes F,Kaiser R,Selbig J

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Prostate cancer (PCa) is a common cancer in men, but variable clinical behaviors make its management challenging. Risk stratification is a key issue in disease management. Patient-tailored strategies are strongly advocated to reduce unnecessary treatment while maximizing the oncological outcomes of patient...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Colicchia M,Morlacco A,Cheville JC,Karnes RJ

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity to use molecular techniques to establish the genetic diagnoses of the autosomal dominant ataxias has revolutionized the field. It is now possible to systematically classify these disorders according to the nature of the causative mutation, with implications for diagnostic testing, analysis of pathogenesis...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Margolis RL

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Testing for amplification of the human EGF receptor 2 (HER2) gene by in situ hybridization is a central principle for the identification of breast cancer patients likely to respond to treatments directed toward HER2. However, its application in clinical routine has been somewhat restricted by the typical use of a visu...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Foged NT,Brügmann A,Jørgensen JT

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hearing loss has a genetic etiology in the majority of cases and is very common. The universal newborn hearing screening program, together with remarkable recent progress in the characterization of genes associated with the function of hearing, have resulted in increased demand and exciting possibilities of detecting ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Schrijver I,Gardner P

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Recently, considerable evidence pointed out monocyte to high-density lipoprotein ratio (MHR) is highly related to inflammatory related diseases. We aim to explore the level of MHR in acute aortic dissection (AAD) patients and determine whether MHR can be a novel diagnostic marker of AAD. Research design an...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Du X,Zhang S,Xu J,Xiang Q,Tian F,Li X,Guo L,Zhu L,Qu P,Fu Y,Tan Y,Gui Y,Wen T,Godinez B,Liu L MD, PHD

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging field of metabolomics, in which a large number of small-molecule metabolites from body fluids or tissues are detected quantitatively in a single step, promises immense potential for early diagnosis, therapy monitoring and for understanding the pathogenesis of many diseases. Metabolomics methods are mostly...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Gowda GA,Zhang S,Gu H,Asiago V,Shanaiah N,Raftery D

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic, chronic and inflammatory disease of unknown etiology. HLA-DRB1 and PTPN22 1858T gene variants are risk factors of RA, clinical manifestations and rate of progression of joint destruction in this autoimmune disease. Currently, several immunopathogenetic models of other genes (CT...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Nagy ZB,Csanád M,Tóth K,Börzsönyi B,Demendi C,Rigó J Jr,Joó JG

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possibility to detect viral DNA or RNA in a quantitative manner has already contributed significantly to the management and diagnosis of viral infections, as well as to the understanding of virus-host interactions. New developments in amplification techniques based on real-time detection, as well as automation of ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Schutten M,Niesters HG

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although comprehensive molecular diagnostics and personalized medicine have sparked excitement among researchers and clinicians, they have yet to be fully incorporated into today's standard of care. This is despite the discovery of disease-related oncogenes, tumor-suppressor genes and protein biomarkers, as well as ot...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Zoon CK,Starker EQ,Wilson AM,Emmert-Buck MR,Libutti SK,Tangrea MA

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiomyopathies are an important and heterogeneous group of common cardiac diseases. An increasing number of cardiomyopathies are now recognized to have familial forms, which result from single-gene mutations that render a Mendelian inheritance pattern, including hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, dilated cardiomyopathy, r...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Callis TE,Jensen BC,Weck KE,Willis MS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bodily fluids like serum and plasma contain significant amounts of tumor-derived circulating cell-free RNA, which holds the potential to serve as diagnostic biomarker. Consequently, liquid biopsies comprising circulating cell-free RNA might help to facilitate personalized treatment strategies for patients ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Ellinger J,Gevensleben H,Müller SC,Dietrich D

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, several chromosome banding techniques based on fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) have been developed for the human and the mouse genome. In contrast to the standard chromosome banding techniques presently used, giving a protein-related banding pattern, those FISH techniques are DNA-specific. Currentl...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Liehr T,Heller A,Starke H,Claussen U

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most common diseases also run in families as rare, monogenic forms. Diabetes is no exception. Mutations in approximately 20 different genes are now known to cause monogenic diabetes, a disease group that can be subclassified into maturity-onset diabetes of the young, neonatal diabetes and mitochondrial diabetes. In so...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Molven A,Njølstad PR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Fine needle aspiration (FNA) with cytologic examination remains the standard of care for investigation of thyroid nodules. However, as many as 30% of FNA samples are cytologically indeterminate for malignancy, which confounds clinical management. To reduce the burden of repeat diagnostic testing and unnece...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Moore MD,Panjwani S,Gray KD,Finnerty BM,Zarnegar R,Fahey TJ 3rd

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MicroRNAs regulate target gene expression through translation repression or mRNA decay, and they are emerging as important modulators in cellular pathways. Previous studies have shown the occurrence of epigenetically modified miRNAs in colorectal cancer (CRC), identifying these miRNA methylation signatures may provide...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Cho WC

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite numerous technical hurdles, the realization of true personalized medicine is becoming a progressive reality for the future of patient care. With the development of new techniques and tools to measure the genetic signature of tumors, biomarkers are increasingly being used to detect occult tumors, determine the ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Guzzetta AA,Pisanic Ii TR,Sharma P,Yi JM,Stark A,Wang TH,Ahuja N

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Introduction: Chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection rates continue to rise worldwide. Increasing screening of the largely asymptomatic infections is critical for timely and effective disease control. Laboratory solutions that can handle increasing volumes and generate highly accurate test results a...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Van Der Pol B

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is becoming increasingly clear that the herpes simplex viruses (HSVs) 1 and 2 constitute a major, global, public health problem, particularly as genital herpes is implicated in the causation of a significant percentage of onwards transmission of the HIV virus. A major factor in the transmission of HSV is that most ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Ryan C,Kinghorn G

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The management of cancer and other genetically based diseases is far from optimal in even our most advanced medical centers. There is still uncertainty regarding how diseases will progress in certain patients, toxicity that must be tolerated with imprecise treatment regimens and significant potential for treatment fai...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Best CJ,Emmert-Buck MR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tumorigenesis is a multistep process resulting from DNA mutations observed at the DNA sequence and chromosome level as well as epigenetic changes, which affect expression of oncogenes and tumor suppressor genes. Breast cancer is a very heterogeneous disease that manifests in various histological and clinical types. De...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Wiechec E

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Syphilis remains an important and preventable cause of stillbirth and neonatal mortality. About 1 million women with active syphilis become pregnant each year. Without treatment, 25% of them will deliver a stillborn baby and 33% a low birth weight baby with an increased chance of dying in the first month o...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Marks M,Mabey DC

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The measurement of numerous samples as in drug screening or diagnostics has been improved significantly over recent years. The processing of a great number of carriers with 96, 384 or 1536 wells is not the limiting step anymore and more than 100,000 samples can be analyzed within 24 h. New challenges arise in optimizi...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Schaertl S,Meyer-Almes FJ

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Higher liver caspase-3 activity has been found in patients with different liver diseases. However, there is no published data about circulating caspase-3 levels in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who underwent liver transplantation (LT). Therefore, our objective in this study was to determine ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Lorente L,Rodriguez ST,Sanz P,González-Rivero AF,Pérez-Cejas A,Padilla J,Díaz D,González A,Martín MM,Jiménez A,Cerro P,Portero J,Barrera MA

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Finding early-stage lung cancer where there is a higher chance for patient survival remains a major healthcare challenge. Low-dose spiral computed tomography for high-risk patients can increase the detection of cancers with certain tradeoffs, such as increased radiation exposure and surgical risks for false-positive c...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Palma JF,Das P,Liesenfeld O

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The huge parallel sequencing capabilities of next generation sequencing technologies have made them the tools of choice to characterize genomic aberrations for research and diagnostic purposes. For clinical applications, screening the whole genome or exome is challenging owing to the large genomic area to be sequenced...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Ballester LY,Luthra R,Kanagal-Shamanna R,Singh RR

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of cytosines in cytosine-guanine (CpG) dinucleotides is one of the most important epigenetic alterations in animals. The presence of methylcytosine in the promoter of specific genes has profound consequences on local chromatin structure and on the regulation of gene expression. Changes in DNA methylation p...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Dehan P,Kustermans G,Guenin S,Horion J,Boniver J,Delvenne P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The prognostic significance of serum gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT) level at diagnosis in patients with metastatic non-small lung cancer (NSCLC) is not clear. We aimed to assess the relationship between serum GGT level and overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in this patient population...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Bozkaya Y,Yazıcı O

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indeterminate thyroid lesions are diagnosed in up to 30% of fine needle aspirations. These nodules harbor malignancy in more than 25% of cases, and hemithyroidectomy or total thyroidectomy has therefore been advocated in order to achieve definitive diagnosis. Recently, many molecular markers have been investigated in ...

journal_title：Expert review of molecular diagnostics

authors： Keutgen XM,Filicori F,Fahey TJ 3rd

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00