Public Health Laboratory Service enzyme linked immunosorbent assay for detecting Toxoplasma specific IgM antibody.

abstract：:A strategy for testing thyroid function with discretionary assay of thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) following initial measurement of total plasma thyroxine (tT4) was retrospectively evaluated in relation to the diagnosis of primary hypothyroidism. Over a two year period 14 641 tT4 assays were done and 6887 TSH assay...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Corns CM,Miller AL

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The miR-9 family microRNAs (miRNAs) are tumour suppressor miRNAs implicated in carcinogenesis. We postulated that miR-9-1, miR-9-2 and miR-9-3 may be inactivated by aberrant promoter methylation in multiple myeloma (MM). METHODS:Methylation of miR-9-1, miR-9-2 and miR-9-3 was studied by methylation-specific PCR (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zhang Q,Wang LQ,Wong KY,Li ZY,Chim CS

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case is reported of a patient with plasmacytoma which assumed different clinicopathological features over seven years. The tumour first presented as a subcutaneous mass which was misdiagnosed as anaplastic carcinoma. Complete response to radiotherapy ensued but recurrence took the form of an intracerebral tumour. Fu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kwong YL,Ng WK

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The applicability of a recently developed non-radioactive DNA labelling and detection method, which uses the digoxigenin (DIG) enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) system, for the detection of viral infections in pathology specimens by in situ hybridisation, was examined. Its efficacy was compared with that of bi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Furuta Y,Shinohara T,Sano K,Meguro M,Nagashima K

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple laboratory method for culture of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) fluids is described. Guidelines for antimicrobial therapy are discussed based on results from 18 patients studied over an 11-week period. Cephalosporins appeared to be a rational choice for therapy while awaiting laboratory resu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Fenton P

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In 12 normal subjects plasma calcium and phosphorus concentrations were estimated during a normal working day. In the individual subjects fluctuations from the fasting values occurred during the period of study, but at no time during that period did the mean values differ significantly from the fasting plasma calcium ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Wills MR

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine the reliability of international normalised ratio (INR) measurement in primary care by practice nurses using near patient testing (NPT), in comparison with results obtained within hospital laboratories by varied methods. METHODS:As part of an MRC funded study into primary care oral anticoagulation man...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hobbs FD,Fitzmaurice DA,Murray ET,Holder R,Rose PE,Roper JL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To compare the sensitivity and staining pattern of the new immunohistochemical antibody to tyrosinase (T311) with S-100, HMB45, and the recently evaluated antibody to melan-A (A103) in a range of melanocytic lesions. METHOD:Archival, formalin fixed, paraffin wax embedded sections from 50 benign and malignant melan...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Clarkson KS,Sturdgess IC,Molyneux AJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current techniques for lymphocyte transformation are evaluated and criticised. A simple technique, designed to meet these criticisms, is described in detail, with particular reference to lymphocyte separation and scoring methods. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pentycross CR

更新日期：1968-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of serum agglutinins and precipitins to Candida albicans in men and women who had impaired bladder function following spinal injury is compared with that in other patients in hospital and in apparently fit men and women. Antibody levels which have commonly been regarded as significant were found in 35 of ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Everall PH,Morris CA,Morris DF

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pre-mRNA splicing is an essential process in eukaryotic cells where the transcribed intronic sequences are removed, prior to translation into protein. PRPF31 is a ubiquitously expressed splicing factor, which aids in the assembly of the macromolecular spliceosome. Mutations in PRPF31 cause autosomal dominant retinitis...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rose AM,Luo R,Radia UK,Bhattacharya SS

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A panel of three monoclonal antibodies were used in an immunoalkaline phosphatase staining method on a series of serous effusion samples from cases of mesothelioma, lung carcinoma, and benign disease. The antibodies used were anti-carcinoembryonic (CEA) antigen, Ca, and anti-human milk fat globule membrane antigen. An...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ghosh AK,Butler EB

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of the Paris study on risk factors of cardiovascular disease in a large professional group, 7710 active and apparently healthy men aged between 48 and 54 were examined. This study measured the relationship between clinical abnormalities suggesting alcoholic liver disease (ALD) and the following blood par...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Eschwege E,Papoz L,Lellouch J,Claude JR,Cubeau J,Pequignot G,Richard JL,Schwartz D

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sclerochoroidal calcification is an uncommon condition. Metabolic evaluation and clinical examination are important to exclude associated systemic conditions such as the Bartter and Gitelman syndromes. It has been suggested that the lesions seen in sclerochoroidal calcification are calcium pyrophosphate dihydrate crys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gupta R,Hu V,Reynolds T,Harrison R

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of DNA degradation and its clinical applications were examined. When purified lambda phage and extracted liver DNA were fixed in phosphate buffered formaldehyde, the DNA did not degrade, but there was incomplete digestion with endonuclease. Rat liver tissues were fixed under various conditions and DNA ex...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Tokuda Y,Nakamura T,Satonaka K,Maeda S,Doi K,Baba S,Sugiyama T

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fourteen formalin fixed and paraffin wax embedded biopsy specimens from 10 women (age range 34-68) presenting with pseudomembranous trigonitis were studied using a combination of anti-oestrogen receptor monoclonal antibodies in an avidin-biotin immunoperoxidase technique. All epithelial areas showing vaginal metaplasi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stephenson TJ,Henry L,Harris SC,Giri DD,Fox M,Underwood JC

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Bone marrow aspiration and biopsy is an invasive procedure associated with morbidity and mortality risk. We compared a powered bone marrow aspiration and biopsy device to the traditional method by relatively assessing pain scores, procedure times, biopsy capture rates, quality of material retrieved, and sa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Swords RT,Anguita J,Higgins RA,Yunes AC,Naski M,Padmanabhan S,Kelly KR,Mahalingam D,Philbeck T,Miller L,Puga TA,Giles FJ,Kinney MC,Brenner AJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the sensitivity and specificity of a multiplex PCR assay for the contemporary identification of major species involved in oral candidiasis, without extraction and purification of DNA from the samples under investigation; and evaluation of this method in comparison with routine phenotypic culture ident...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Liguori G,Lucariello A,Colella G,De Luca A,Marinelli P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In the time of COVID-19, predictive molecular pathology laboratories must still timely select oncological patients for targeted treatments. However, the need to respect social distancing measures may delay results generated by laboratory-developed tests based on sequential steps a long hands-on time. Laboratory wo...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Malapelle U,De Luca C,Iaccarino A,Pepe F,Pisapia P,Russo M,Sgariglia R,Nacchio M,Vigliar E,Bellevicine C,Schmitt FC,Troncone G

更新日期：2020-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Michaëlsson's (1961) method for the measurement of plasma bilirubin concentration was found to be complicated by conjugated bilirubin. Delaying the addition of the accelerator, diphylline, corrected this fault. The method was calibrated using serum or plasma, since reconstituted protein solutions introduced large erro...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thompson RP

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a readily applicable polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based technique which would permit the identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex isolates from Bactec phials at an earlier stage than currently available methods. METHODS:Mycobacterial cells cultured in Bactec 12B medium were harvested by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cormican MG,Barry T,Gannon F,Flynn J

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The IHC4+C score combines assessment of oestrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PgR), HER2 and Ki67 with clinicopathological parameters to identify the risk of distant disease recurrence in patients with breast cancer, so, aiding treatment decision-making on adjuvant chemotherapy. Despite low cost and wide...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Dodson A,Zabaglo L,Yeo B,Miller K,Smith I,Dowsett M

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To assess the occurrence of diagnostic delay in primary antibody deficiency in the period 1989-2002, since a similar study in 1989, and to assess the impact of UK national guidelines communicated in 1995. METHODS:A retrospective case note review was performed of 89 consecutive patients with antibody deficiency re...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Seymour B,Miles J,Haeney M

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic balance studies for iron have been carried out on 24 apparently healthy elderly people (11 men and 13 women) aged 69.7 to 85.5 years living in their own homes and eating self selected diets. Several biochemical and haematological indices of iron state were also measured. The mean daily iron intake was 176 mu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bunker VW,Lawson MS,Clayton BE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Sinusoidal dilatation and congestion (SDC) in liver biopsy may be obstructive (due to venous outflow impairment) or non-obstructive in nature. The significance of this finding in the post-liver transplant setting remains unexplored. METHODS:We herein retrospectively analysed all post-transplant liver biopsies sho...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bakshi N,Rastogi A,Pamecha V,Bihari C

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA typing was requested to investigate a presumptive cancer diagnosis error by confirming whether benign and cancerous prostatic tissue in the same presurgical haematoxylin and eosin stained slide belonged to the same person. After independent histological re-examination of the slide by a pathologist, manual slide di...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alonso A,Alves C,Suárez-Mier MP,Albarrán C,Pereira L,Fernández de Simón L,Martín P,García O,Gusmão L,Sancho M,Amorim A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sera from 20 cases of toxoplasmic lymphadenopathy were examined by an enzyme linked immunosorbent assay toxoplasma IgG avidity (ELISA) at two laboratories. The results obtained were largely in agreement and showed that sera from patients with acute infection had low avidity IgG (30% or less), whereas sera from patient...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Joynson DH,Payne RA,Rawal BK

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To establish whether abnormalities in the course of the vertebral artery occur and whether they are relevant to arterial injury associated with head and neck movements. METHODS:Twenty vertebral arteries were carefully dissected at necropsy and abnormalities in course were noted, along with any other bony or carti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Johnson CP,Scraggs M,How T,Burns J

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma diamine oxidase levels were assayed in 66 patients who presented with pregnancy complicated by threatened abortion. Levels within the normal range were associated with continuing pregnancies, whereas levels below the normal range were associated with subsequent abortion. Among those patients in whom gestation w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Legge M,Duff GB

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the differential determination of plasma antithrombins, antithrombin III and alpha2 macroglobulin, is described. The method is based on the selective inactivation of plasma alpha2 macroglobulin by treatment with 0-1 M methylamine for 10 minutes at 37 degrees C and on the observation that antithrombin III ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Musumeci V,Vincenti A,Bizzi B

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00