Free light chains and heavy/light chains in monitoring POEMS patients.

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study compared automated vs. manual tissue grinding in terms of RNA yield obtained from oral mucosa biopsies. METHODS:A total of 20 patients undergoing uvulectomy for sleep-related disorders and 10 patients undergoing biopsy for head and neck squamous cell carcinoma were enrolled in the study. Samples ...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Van der Vorst S,Dekairelle AF,Irenge L,Hamoir M,Robert A,Gala JL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The commutability of 13 control materials was evaluated by performing parallel measurements on two different analysers: a Synchron CX-5 Delta from Beckman-Coulter and a Vitros 950 from Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics. Twenty three clinical chemistry analytes (substrates, electrolytes and enzymatic activities) were determin...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Brion E,Lessinger JM,Gould N,Leyendecker J,Férard G

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For several years it has been possible to routinely detect numerous mutations in the human genome by different methods. The most common technique is a standard PCR, but real time fluorescence PCR is increasingly being used. The purpose of this paper is to compare these two different techniques from the point of view o...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Schroell-Metzger B,Dicato M,Bosseler M,Berchem G

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:As ABO blood type influences the plasma level of coagulation factor VIII (FVIII), it likely also affects activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) and thrombin generation assay (TGA) values. Here, we aimed to investigate the effect of ABO type on the normal values of three global coagulation assays: proth...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Choi Q,Kim JE,Kim SY,Han KS,Kim HK

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Some clinical chemistry measurement methods are vulnerable to interference if hemolyzed serum samples are used. The aims of this study were: (1) to obtain updated information about how hemolysis affects clinical chemistry test results on different instrument platforms used in Nordic laboratories, and (2) to...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Gidske G,Aakre KM,Rustad P,Sandberg S,Norling A,Pelanti J,Henriksen G,Thorsteinsdottir I,Kristensen GBB

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpretation of alkaline phosphatase activity in children is challenging due to extensive changes with growth and puberty leading to distinct sex- and age-specific dynamics. Continuous percentile charts from birth to adulthood allow accurate consideration of these dynamics and seem reasonable for an analyt...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Zierk J,Arzideh F,Haeckel R,Cario H,Frühwald MC,Groß HJ,Gscheidmeier T,Hoffmann R,Krebs A,Lichtinghagen R,Neumann M,Ruf HG,Steigerwald U,Streichert T,Rascher W,Metzler M,Rauh M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human C-reactive protein is a Ca2+-binding acute phase-protein with binding specificity for phosphocholine. Recent crystallographic and mutagenesis studies have provided a solid understanding of the structural biology of the protein, while experiments using transgenic mice have confirmed its host-defense function. The...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Szalai AJ,Agrawal A,Greenhough TJ,Volanakis JE

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated disorder of the small bowel in which gluten and related cereal ingestion leads to chronic inflammation and damage to the small bowel mucosa in genetically susceptible individuals. The presence of IgA type tissue-transglutaminase antibodies (IgA-anti-tTG) in individua...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Ress K,Harro J,Uibo O,Uibo R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Circulating blood platelets play a central role in the maintenance of hemostasis. They adhere to subendothelial extracellular matrix proteins that become exposed upon vessel wall damage, which is followed by platelet activation, further platelet recruitment, platelet aggregation and formation of an occlusive, or non-o...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Provost P

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite many years of study, clinical trials of new drugs to prevent thrombosis have often been disappointing. Part of the problem lies in our incomplete understanding of the regulation of plasminogen activation and/or inhibition in vivo. We have previously shown that in vitro nitration of plasminogen in plasma by per...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Hathuc C,Hermo R,Schulze J,Gugliucci A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although prostate-specific antigen (PSA), or human kallikrein 3, is the most valuable tool available for the diagnosis and management of prostate cancer, as currently used it is insufficiently sensitive and specific for early detection or staging of the malignancy. Many new concepts have been introduced in order to op...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Daher R,Beaini M

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Apolipoprotein E (APOE) and choline acetyltransferase (ChAT) have been suggested as candidate genes for determining the risk of late-onset Alzheimer's disease. The aim of this study was to simultaneously detect polymorphisms in codons 112 and 158 of APOE and codon 2 of ChAT by hybridization probe multiplexin...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Park HD,Park KU,Kim KW,Song J,Chang HE,Heo SR,Lee HJ,Kim JQ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) is an established risk factor for cardiovascular disease and is usually estimated by the Friedewald formula (FF) calculated from three parameters, namely, total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). We aimed to devel...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Hu CY,Lee CL,Sheu WH,Wang JS,Lee IT,Song YM,Fu CP,Ling JT,Li YF,Lin SY

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Squamous cell carcinoma antigen-immunoglobulin M (SCCA-IgM) is a useful biomarker for the risk of development of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis due to its progressive increase associated to HCC evolution. In patients with cirrhosis, other assays have been affected by interfering re...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Zuin J,Veggiani G,Pengo P,Gallotta A,Biasiolo A,Tono N,Gatta A,Pontisso P,Toth R,Cerin D,Frecer V,Meo S,Gion M,Fassina G,Beneduce L

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interleukins, interferons and oxidative DNA products are important biomarkers assessing the inflammations and tissue damages caused by toxic materials in the body. We tried to evaluate distributions, reference values and age related changes of blood levels of inflammatory cytokines, C-reactive protein (CRP),...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Murase T,Kitamura H,Kochi T,Terunuma N,Kurosaki S,Hata K,Yanagi N,Uchino B,Kitahara K,Morimoto Y,Kasai H,Sasaki T,Ogami A,Higashi T

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:The outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has rapidly spread globally. The laboratory diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 infection has relied on nucleic acid testing; however, it has some limitations, such as low throughput and high rates of false negatives. Tests of higher sensitivit...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Qian C,Zhou M,Cheng F,Lin X,Gong Y,Xie X,Li P,Li Z,Zhang P,Liu Z,Hu F,Wang Y,Li Q,Zhu Y,Duan G,Xing Y,Song H,Xu W,Liu BF,Xia F

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to test the hypothesis that impaired neutrophil function might contribute to the development of bacterial pneumonia in patients with HIV-infection. Numbers of inflammatory cells and immunoglobulin G Fcgamma receptor (IgG FcgammaR) I, II, III levels were investigated in bronchoalveolar lavage (B...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Armbruster C,Krugluger W,Huber M,Stephan K

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of an external quality assessment (EQA) is to evaluate the analytical capability of clinical laboratories, identify differences among the laboratories and improve analytical quality. Our EQA results show that the rates of unsatisfactory performance for thyroid hormone tests were the highest in al...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Zhou Q,Li S,Li X,Wang W,Wang Z

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The early diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has become a priority owing to the availability of effective disease-modifying agents that can improve patient wellbeing and influence the clinical outcome. However, this represents a real challenge, as no clinical, radiological or immunological features are pathognomon...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Bizzaro N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of highly sensitive immunometric methods in clinical laboratories to assay anti-thyroid antibodies has progressively expanded in recent years but it is not known whether the new techniques have improved the analytical variability connected with the preceding methodologies. The Italian Society of Laboratory Med...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Tozzoli R,Bizzaro N,Tonutti E,Pradella M,Manoni F,Vilalta D,Bassetti D,Piazza A,Rizzotti P,Italian Society of Laboratory Medicine (SIMeL) Study Group on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Autoimmune Diseases.

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homocysteine is a risk factor for ischemic heart disease; similarly as is hyperlipidemia or insulin resistance, which frequently occur in women with polycystic ovary syndrome. We examined the relationships between thiols and hormonal status or insulin resistance in 40 women (aged 25.8 +/- 7 years) with polycystic ovar...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Vrbíková J,Tallová J,Biciková M,Dvoráková K,Hill M,Stárka L

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gastric juice is known to have phospholipase A2 catalytic activity. Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) has been reported to produce phospholipase A2, which is believed to hydrolyse the protective layer of gastric mucosal phospholipids and to promote mucosal damage. The current study aimed at identifying secretory phospho...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Huhtinen HT,Grönroos JM,Haapamäki MM,Nevalainen TJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aging is the result of several mechanisms which operate simultaneously. Among them, glycation is of particular interest because it is a reaction which affects slowly renewing tissues and macromolecules with elevated half-life, like the dermis, a skin compartment highly affected by aging. Glycation produces c...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Pageon H,Zucchi H,Rousset F,Monnier VM,Asselineau D

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute-phase "panproteinase" inhibitor alpha2-macroglobulin (alpha2M), a protein involved in inflammatory reactions, has been identified in amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's disease (AD). In addition, alpha2M is involved in AD susceptibility at the genetic level, and a deletion polymorphism at the a2M gene has been fo...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Scacchi R,Ruggeri M,Gambina G,Martini MC,Corbo RM

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fatty acid metabolites play a key role in numerous physiological and pathological processes. A rapid liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry assay for the simultaneous determination of prostanoids, isoprostane and lipoxygenase (LOX) derived fatty acid metabolites in a small biological sample of only 20 micro...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Unterwurzacher I,Koal T,Bonn GK,Weinberger KM,Ramsay SL

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Procalcitonin (PCT) is increasingly being used for the diagnostic and prognostic work up of patients with suspected infections in the emergency department (ED). Recently, B·R·A·H·M·S PCT direct, the first high sensitive point-of-care test (POCT), has been developed for fast PCT measurement on capillary or ve...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Kutz A,Hausfater P,Oppert M,Alan M,Grolimund E,Gast C,Alonso C,Wissmann C,Kuehn C,Bernard M,Huber A,Mueller B,Schuetz P

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The differential diagnosis between bacterial and viral meningitis is not easy in some cases. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is essential for establishing this diagnosis. The objectives were to quantitate lactic acid (LA) concentrations in bacterial and viral meningitis, and other central nervous system (...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： de Almeida SM,Faria FL,de Goes Fontes K,Buczenko GM,Berto DB,Raboni SM,Vidal LR,Nogueira MB

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With patients referred to emergency departments (EDs) for acute dyspnea, emergency physicians should consider all possible diagnoses and assess patients' risk stratification. Copeptin has been shown to have prognostic power for subsequent events, such as death and rehospitalization in patients admitted for d...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Vetrone F,Santarelli S,Russo V,Lalle I,De Berardinis B,Magrini L,Di Stasio E,Salerno G,Cardelli P,Piccoli A,Codognotto M,Mion MM,Plebani M,Vettore G,Castello LM,Avanzi GC,Di Somma S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haemophilia A is the most common inherited bleeding disorder caused by defects in the F8C gene that encodes coagulation factor VIII. This X-linked recessive disorder occurs in approximately 1:5000 males. Haemophilia A is diagnosed based on normal prothrombin time, altered activated partial thromboplastin time and redu...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Castaldo G,D'Argenio V,Nardiello P,Zarrilli F,Sanna V,Rocino A,Coppola A,Di Minno G,Salvatore F

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Potassium is an important serum ion that is frequently assayed in clinical laboratories. Quality assurance requires reference methods; thus, the establishment of a candidate reference method for serum potassium measurements is important. METHODS:An inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) metho...

journal_title：Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine

authors： Yan Y,Han B,Zeng J,Zhou W,Zhang T,Zhang J,Chen W,Zhang C

更新日期：2017-08-28 00:00:00