Prognostic utility of the combination of pretreatment monocyte-to-lymphocyte ratio and neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio in patients with NMIBC after transurethral resection.

abstract：AIM:Cardiotrophin-1 null mice presented decreased arterial stiffness. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between cardiotrophin-1 and arterial stiffness, assessed by brachial-ankle pulse-wave velocity (baPWV). METHODS:We enrolled 300 subjects, 200 with baPWV >1400 and 100 with baPWV ≤1400 cm/s. R...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Hung HC,Lu FH,Ou HY,Wu HT,Wu JS,Yang YC,Chang CJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: We aimed to assess the predictive value of the absolute and relative intact parathormone (iPTH) decline levels as reliable markers of postoperative hypocalcemia. Materials & methods: iPTH levels were measured 4 h after surgery and the following morning after surgery (postoperative day 1). iPTH, absolute iP...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Rajan S,Ravindhran B,George B,Bantwal G,Vageesh Ayyar,Mohan LN

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute kidney injury is a common and significant complication among pediatric patients with congenital heart disease, occurring most commonly after cardiopulmonary bypass. Current laboratory methods of diagnosis are not timely enough to guide management decisions, thus spurring interest in discovering new biomarkers of...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Kwiatkowski DM,Goldstein SL,Krawczeski CD

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's disease will reach epidemic proportions within the next 20-30 years if left unchecked. Currently, there are no treatments that prevent or slow Alzheimer's disease but many are being developed. Parallel efforts to develop biomarkers to aid in disease diagnosis and prognosis, and assess disease risk are curr...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Fagan AM,Holtzman DM

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of genomic medicine to the treatment of nicotine dependence holds great promise for revitalizing the steady decline in smoking rates witnessed in the USA over the past several decades. This paper examines the current knowledge base concerning the use of biomarkers to guide the selection of nicotine dep...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Schnoll RA,Leone FT

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of metabolic disorders (MDs), especially diabetes, is rapidly increasing worldwide, leading to an increasing risk of cardiovascular and other socially relevant complications. To boost MD biomarker discovery, advanced proteomics can harmonize metabolomics. Indeed, the rapid development of mass spectromet...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Di Girolamo F,Del Chierico F,Caenaro G,Lante I,Muraca M,Putignani L

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the main cause of death in post-menopausal women (PMW). Beyond the 'traditional' cardiovascular risk factors of CHD, newer biomarkers, reflecting inflammation, endothelial function and oxidative stress, have received growing consideration. We systematically reviewed the literature on th...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Spoletini I,Vitale C,Rosano GM

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:We evaluated the effect of lncRNA SOX2OT expression and its SNP in tumorigenesis and development of breast cancer (BC) in a case-control study. METHODS:A total of 1106 individuals, 505 newly diagnosed BC patients and 601 age-matched controls (±2 years) were testified. Real-time PCR was adopted for testing tissues'...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Tang X,Gao Y,Yu L,Lu Y,Zhou G,Cheng L,Sun K,Zhu B,Xu M,Liu J

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) and diabetes mellitus Type 2 (DM2) are two diseases as ancient as they are harmful to human health. The outcome for both diseases in part depends on immune and metabolic individual responses. DM2 is increasing yearly, mainly due to environmental, genetic and lifestyle habits. There are multiple evide...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Salgado-Bustamante M,Rocha-Viggiano AK,Rivas-Santiago C,Magaña-Aquino M,López JA,López-Hernández Y

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heart failure remains an important clinical and public health problem with significant mortality, morbidity and economic consequences. The identification of natriuretic peptides and the large number of investigations that followed have led to a better understanding of the neurohormonal pathophysiology of heart failure...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Miller WL,Targonski PV,Jaffe AS

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular disease refers to different diseases involving the heart and/or the arteries and/or the veins. Cardiovascular disease, overall considered, is a notable source of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Therefore, several research studies are dedicated to explore, by means of biomarkers, the possiblity to cal...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Serra R,Ielapi N,Barbetta A,Andreucci M,de Franciscis S

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major depressive disorder (MDD: unipolar depression) is widely distributed in the USA and world-wide populations and it is one of the leading causes of disability in both adolescents and adults. Traditional diagnostic approaches for MDD are based on patient interviews, which provide a subjective assessment of clinical...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Bilello JA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: This study sought to investigate the relationship between galectin-3 (Gal-3), myocardial fibrosis (MF) and outcomes in acute heart failure. Materials & methods: The single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of LGALS3 at rs4644 and rs4652, plasma Gal-3 level, MF and major adverse events (MAEs) were obtained. Results:...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Fu H,Nie S,Luo P,Ruan Y,Zhang Z,Miao H,Li X,Wen S,Bai R

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The aim of the present study was to investigate the association of circulating miRNAs with white-coat hypertension (WCH) and further analyze whether miRNAs could be as potential biomarkers for WCH. METHOD:Quantitative reverse transcriptase PCR (qRT-PCR) was used to evaluate the expression of selected miRNAs. The a...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Huang YQ,Huang C,Chen JY,Li J,Feng YQ

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is a public health concern worldwide. Particularly worrying is the emergence of severe forms of drug resistance, such as extensively drug resistant and totally drug resistant tuberculosis, with few treatment options for the afflicted patients. To avoid further spread of drug resistance, its early detectio...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Palomino JC,Vandamme P,Martin A

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: We investigated whether ADAMTS9-AS2 and CADM2 were related to esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Methodology: ESCC microarray datasets and reverse transcriptase qualitative PCR were used to analyze ADAMTS9-AS2 and CADM2 expression. Results: The GSE120356 and GSE33810 datasets identified ADAMTS9-AS2...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Shen FF,Zhang F,Yang HJ,Li JK,Su JF,Yu PT,Zhou FY,Che GW

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: Natural killer cell receptor group 2D (NKG2D) plays an important role in the immune regulation of tumors. We speculate that DNA methylation are involved in the regulation of NKG2D gene. Methods: We investigated the methylation status of the NKG2D promoter in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of hepatocellular ca...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Zhao NH,Qian Y,Wu CS,Wang JW,Fang Y,Fan XP,Gao S,Fan YC,Wang K

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autophagy is a catabolic process associated with intracellular self-digestion of damaged organelles or redundant proteins enabling maintenance of cell homeostasis. It is accepted that impaired autophagy is closely linked to cancer development and has been extensively studied in a variety of malignancies including colo...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Gil J,Pesz KA,Sąsiadek MM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The usefulness of high-sensitivity troponin T (hs-TnT) as a predictor of perioperative hemodynamic instability is currently unknown. METHODS:A prospective study was conducted on a group of 708 consecutive patients with significant valvular heart disease that underwent elective valve surgery. The primary end point ...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Duchnowski P,Hryniewiecki T,Koźma M,Mariusz K,Piotr S

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:LncRNAs may act as promising biomarkers in esophageal cancer (EC). Here, we illustrate the LncRNA profile and their clinical relevance in EC. PATIENTS & METHODS:In this study, we utilized the Cancer Genome Atlas RNA-sequencing and clinical data from 186 patients and 13 normal samples. Various statistical and gene ...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Khadirnaikar S,Narayanan SP,Shukla SK

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In general, a biomarker has multiple uses such as a diagnostic tool and a method to monitor therapy. The quality of a biomarker depends on how big the difference is between, for example, patients and healthy controls, but also on the capacity of the method used to measure it (the uncertainty in the method should be mu...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Andreasson U,Vanmechelen E,Shaw LM,Zetterberg H,Vanderstichele H

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibrosis is characterized by aberrant myofibroblast accumulation and excessive extracellular matrix deposition, which leads to organ failure and significantly contributes to mortality worldwide. Exosomes, which are extracellular nanovesicles with a diameter of 30-100 nm that are secreted into the extracellular space b...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Qin XJ,Zhang JX,Wang RL

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The conflicting relationships of serum omentin with inflammation markers and cardiometabolic disorders were investigated. Results & methods: Unselected 864 population-based middle-aged adults were cross-sectionally studied by sex-specific omentin tertiles. Men in the lowest omentin tertile (T1) had lower systolic b...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Onat A,Ademoglu E,Karadeniz Y,Can G,Uzun AO,Simsek B,Kaya A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The association between Lipoprotein (a) (Lp [a]) and common carotid intima media thickness (IMT) has been evaluated in 222 menopausal women. MATERIAL & METHODS:Lp (a) and IMT were measured, carotid ultrasound examination (B-Mode imaging) was performed and mean max IMT was calculated. RESULTS:Lp (a) was significan...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Gentile M,Iannuzzo G,Mattiello A,Marotta G,Iannuzzi A,Panico S,Rubba P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interferons (IFNs) comprise type I, II and III families with multiple subtypes. Via transcription of IFN-stimulated genes (ISGs), IFNs can exert multiple biological effects on the cell. In infectious and chronic inflammatory diseases, the IFNs and their ISG sets can be potentially utilized as biomarkers of disease out...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Berry CM,Hertzog PJ,Mangan NE

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article focuses on biochemical markers that may be used in the diagnostics of Parkinson's disease and associated disorders, and to identify early cases and stratify patients into subgroups. We present an updated account of some currently available candidate fluid biomarkers, and discuss their diagnostic performan...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Nyhlén J,Constantinescu R,Zetterberg H

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work, we review the main available computational methods of identifying biomarkers of complex diseases from high-throughput data. The emerging omics techniques provide powerful alternatives to measure thousands of molecules in cells in parallel manners. The generated genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic, metabol...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Liu ZP

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Oxidative stress has been postulated as an additive factor linking obesity to cardiovascular disease. MATERIALS & METHODS:Derivatives of reactive oxygen species metabolites (d-ROMs) were measured in 136 obese (42 males, 94 females; mean age: 47 ± 12 years; BMI: 36 ± 5 kg/m(2)) and in 306 over- and normal-we...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Vassalle C,Vigna L,Bianchi S,Maffei S,Novembrino C,De Giuseppe R,de Liso F,Vannucci A,Tirelli S,Maiavacca R,Bamonti F

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, decision-making for breast cancer treatment in the clinical setting is mainly based on clinical data, histomorphological features of the tumor tissue and a few cancer biomarkers such as steroid hormone receptor status (estrogen and progesterone receptors) and oncoprotein HER2 status. Although various therap...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Napieralski R,Brünner N,Mengele K,Schmitt M

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and tumor-specific alterations in cell-free plasma DNA can both be used as markers of prognosis in breast cancer. To date, there have been no studies that have compared these as markers for subclinical metastases in the follow-up of early breast cancer. In this study, we measur...

journal_title：Biomarkers in medicine

authors： Shaw JA,Brown J,Coombes RC,Jacob J,Payne R,Lee B,Page K,Hava N,Stebbing J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00