Use of the 'Analmatic clinical system' in the microbiological assay of vitamin B 12 and folic acid in serum.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In experimental glomerulonephritis, inhibition of cyclooxygenase 2 (COX-2) enhances the renocortical expression of pathogenic alpha(v) integrins. AIMS:To study whether this effect is mediated by prostaglandin E(2) (PGE(2)) acting through its EP(3) receptor in cultured rat mesangial cells (MCs). METHODS:MCs...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Waldner C,Schrör K,Heering P

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A genetic component to the development of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been proposed, and a possible association between human leucocyte antigen (HLA) class II antigens and chronic fatigue immune dysfunction has been shown in some, but not all, studies. AIMS:To investigate the role of HLA class II ant...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith J,Fritz EL,Kerr JR,Cleare AJ,Wessely S,Mattey DL

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-associated precancerous lesions may be adenomatous or non-adenomatous with various histomorphologies. We aim to validate the newly proposed classification, to explore the neoplastic nature of the non-adenomatous lesions and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the diffe...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Gui X,Köbel M,Ferraz JG,Iacucci M,Ghosh S,Liu S,Ou Y,Perizzolo M,Winkfein RJ,Rambau P,Demetrick DJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hsulf-1 is a newly identified enzyme with arylsulphatase activity that can regulate the sulphation state of cell-surface heparan sulphate proteoglycans (HSPGs). In vitro overexpression of this enzyme in pancreatic cancer cells decreases responsiveness to fibroblastic growth factor-2, as Hsulf-1 is up regulat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Abiatari I,Kleeff J,Li J,Felix K,Büchler MW,Friess H

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence shows that chronic liver disease induced by hepatitis delta virus is closely associated with production of autoantibodies. To verify this sera from patients with hepatitis delta virus and from those with hepatitis B virus mediated chronic liver disease were tested for a panel of autoantibodies. Althoug...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zauli D,Crespi C,Bianchi FB,Craxi A,Pisi E

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In colonic biopsies of 33 patients with acute colitis caused by campylobacter, salmonella, or shigella immunoglobulin containing cells were determined quantitatively using an indirect immunoperoxidase technique and morphometry with a graphic tablet. The findings were compared with those of 10 patients without histolog...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： van Spreeuwel JP,Lindeman J,Meijer CJ

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The performance of coagulometers in the National Quality Assessment Scheme (NEQAS) surveys of the prothrombin time conducted between 1986 and 1987 was reviewed. There were sufficient data for analysis for eight types of coagulometer used with a single type of thromboplastin reagent and one instrument with an alternati...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Poller L,Thomson JM,Taberner DA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy is the preferred surgical technique for staging the axilla in clinically node-negative breast cancer. Accurate intraoperative staging allows for the immediate performance of an axillary clearance in node-positive patients. We assessed the Metasin assay for the intraoperative analys...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Smith GJ,Hodges E,Markham H,Zhang S,Cutress RI

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocket-line immunoelectrophoresis (R-LIE) with antigen containing intermediate gel, and co-agglutination utilising protein A-containing staphylococci coated with specific antibodies, were adapted for serotyping the prototypes of group B meningococci. Both were found to have the same specificity as agar gel double diff...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Danielsson D,Olcén P

更新日期：1979-02-01 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：:Serum lysozyme levels were determined by a turbidometric method using egg white lysozyme as standard in 100 patients with Crohn's disease, 86 with ulcerative colitis, 31 with coeliac disease, and in 38 normal control subjects. Though the levels in Crohn's disease were significantly higher than those in ulcerative coli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mallas E,Terry JM,Asquith P,Cooke WT

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three adults with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency are described. In two of the cases the deficiency was genetically determined (cases 1 and 2), and each demonstrated unusual features of the disease. The liver in case 1 (homozygous) showed cholangiolar hyperplasia which has been recorded only once before. Case 2 (hetero...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sweeney EC

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the pathological findings in a case of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) in a patient with no known risk factor. Postmortem examination showed klebsiella lung abscess, generalised cytomegalovirus infection, cerebral toxoplasmosis, and a primary cerebral lymphoma. An additional feature was the presen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Burt AD,Scott G,Shiach CR,Isles CG

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 72 year old woman presented complaining of nasal obstruction, rhinorrea, and epistaxis. At examination, a polypoid mass on the right posterior choana was revealed and subsequently removed. Light microscopic findings consisted of a diffuse proliferation of spindle shaped, pleomorphic cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Vincenzi A,Rossi G,Monzani D,Longo L,Rivasi F

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathological findings are described in four cases of a new aminoaciduria in which homocystine is excreted in the urine. All the patients were mentally retarded children. Three of them presented diagnostic features of Marfan's syndrome. Necropsy on one case and biopsy findings in the others are described. Fatty change ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： GIBSON JB,CARSON NA,NEILL DW

更新日期：1964-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty two fire victims with smoke inhalation, with or without burns, and 26 control subjects had bronchoalveolar lavage performed. Cell yields and differential cell counts were assessed. All patients and controls were cigarette smokers. Patients with smoke inhalation (SI) injury generally showed higher total bronchoa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Riyami BM,Tree R,Kinsella J,Clark CJ,Reid WH,Campbell D,Gemmell CG

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apoptosis can be induced in response to hypoxia. The severity of hypoxia determines whether cells become apoptotic or adapt to hypoxia and survive. A hypoxic environment devoid of nutrients prevents the cell undergoing energy dependent apoptosis and cells become necrotic. Apoptosis regulatory proteins are delicately b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Greijer AE,van der Wall E

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:Heart failure (HF) affects millions of older individuals in both developed and low/middle-income countries. Serum galectin-3 levels have been shown to have prognostic value. However, its use as a diagnostic biomarker has not been explored. The aim was to establish a saliva galectin-3 reference range and to demonstr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Zhang X,Wan Y,Chata R,Brazzale A,Atherton JJ,Kostner K,Dimeski G,Punyadeera C

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell volumes of mononuclear cells, T lymphocytes, B lymphocytes, and monocytes from the peripheral blood of 20 normal individuals were compared to neoplastic lymphoid cells from 14 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL), 20 individuals with acute lymphocytic leukaemia (ALL), and 18 cases of non-Hodgkin'...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chapman EH,Kurec AS,Davey FR

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:VARIOUS LABORATORIES HAVE REPORTED DIFFERING SUCCESS RATES IN THEIR ABILITY TO DETECT INTRATHECAL SYNTHESIS OF ANTIBODY WHEN COMPARING THE INDEX OF [FORMULA: see text] with electrophoretic analysis. We selected 44 patients in the borderline area of minimal and/or equivocal abnormality by IgG index. Electrophoretic ana...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Thompson EJ,Riches PG,Kohn J

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes occurring at the periphery of invasive cervical carcinomas have been studied in detail, with particular reference to the incidence of preinvasive carcinoma. The various criteria used in the cytological diagnosis of malignancy have been evaluated, and the implications of large cytological screening programm...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： MEYER PC

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To compare the efficacy of and tolerance to oral fluconazole and intraconazole in preventing fungal infection in neutropenic patients with haematological malignancies. PATIENTS:213 consecutive, afebrile adult patients treated with or without autologous stem cell transplantation for haematological malignancies. M...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Huijgens PC,Simoons-Smit AM,van Loenen AC,Prooy E,van Tinteren H,Ossenkoppele GJ,Jonkhoff AR

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine whether myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) are associated with sea blue histiocytosis in the bone marrow. METHODS:A retrospective review of bone marrow aspirates from 35 patients presenting consecutively with MDS and from 20 patients with each of the following: normal marrow appearance (routine staging ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Howard MR,Kesteven PJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study has been made of 523 strains of staphylococci on the basis of biological properties, phage typing, and serology. The value of serology in the identification of pathogenic staphylococci has been assessed. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Choudhuri KK,Chakrabarty AN

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:We explore factors such as the blood sampling site (capillary vs venous), the equipment (HemoCue vs automated haematology analyser) and the model of the HemoCue device (201+ vs 301) that may impact haemoglobin measurements in capillary and venous blood. METHODS:Eleven studies were identified, and bias, conco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rappaport AI,Karakochuk CD,Hess SY,Whitehead RD Jr,Namaste SML,Dary O,Parker ME,Neufeld LM,Larson LM,Newton S,Wegmuller R,Moorthy D

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes (IELs) is mandatory for the histological diagnosis of coeliac disease (CD). Currently, duodenal biopsies are used almost exclusively to establish the diagnosis, yet published work continues to cite an upper limit of 40 lymphocytes/100 epithelial cells, a figure deri...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hayat M,Cairns A,Dixon MF,O'Mahony S

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two diabetic patients with symptomatic urinary tract infection by Torulopsis glabrata were successfully treated with two-week courses of 5-fluorocytosine. ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Speller DC

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temporal changes in gastric antibody response were investigated in 113 (51 men, 62 women) patients with confirmed pernicious anaemia. Their ages ranged from 31-92 years (mean (SD 13.2) 66). At diagnosis, parietal cell antibody and intrinsic factor antibody were detected in 90.9% and 39.1% of all patients, respectively...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Davidson RJ,Atrah HI,Sewell HF

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A biochemical typing method is described for Klebsiella pneumoniae (sensu lato) and Enterobacter aerogenes. The technique depends on differences in metabolism of five carbon substrates--glycerol, inositol, lactose, glucose, and xylose--at two concentrations. Reproducibility is satisfactory and is monitored by the inco...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Barr JG,Hogg GM

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the causes of death in patients with osteogenesis imperfecta, excluding infants with the perinatal lethal form (type II). METHODS:Seventy nine patients with known osteogenesis imperfecta were identified, 37 of whom had been seen clinically in life. Causes of death were identified from death certifica...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McAllion SJ,Paterson CR

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00