Assessment of thyroid status in pregnant women and in patients taking oral contraceptives by a free thyroxine index.

abstract：AIMS:The signalling system of phosphoinositides (PIs) is involved in a number of cell and tissue functions including membrane trafficking, ion channel activity, cell cycle, apoptosis, differentiation and cell and tissue polarity. Recently, a role in cell migration was hypothesised for PI and related molecules including...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lo Vasco VR,Pacini L,Di Raimo T,D'arcangelo D,Businaro R

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The only method currently available to perform Neisseria gonorrhoeae antimicrobial susceptibility testing (Ng-AST) requires a viable organism obtained by culture. Reports of in vitro resistance to extended-spectrum cephalosporins, the treatment of choice for gonorrhoea, coupled with increasing gonorrhoea diagnoses is ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jain A,Cole MJ,Planche T,Ison CA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the association of cagA positivity and non-opsonic neutrophil activation capacity in wild-type Helicobacter pylori strains with peptic ulcer disease or chronic gastritis only. METHODS:Helicobacter pylori were isolated from antral biopsies of 53 consecutive patients with chronic antral gastritis, of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Danielsson D,Farmery SM,Blomberg B,Perry S,Rautelin H,Crabtree JE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the incidence, investigation, and management of severe hyponatraemia (serum sodium < 120 mmol/litre) over a period of six months in a district general hospital. METHODS:The laboratory computer was used to identify all inpatients who had a serum sodium concentration of less than 120 mmol/litre over a six ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Saeed BO,Beaumont D,Handley GH,Weaver JU

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional prostate adenocarcinomas consist mainly of tumour cells of luminal immunophenotype with scattered neuroendocrine (NE) cells. NE cells are defined by chromogranin A (CGA) immunoreactivity. Unlike luminal cells, NE cells lack androgen receptor (AR) and prostate specific antigen (PSA) immunoreactivity. This ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Roudier MP,True LD,Vessella RL,Higano CS

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The term "dysplastic" melanocytic naevus has recently been used to describe pigmented naevi with unusual histological and clinical features. There is currently no clear clinical or pathological definition of the term, and this has led to a lack of comparability of material described in reports on these lesions. As a r...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Seywright MM,Doherty VR,MacKie RM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of the commonly used red cell radio labels chromium-51, indium-(111 or 113m), and technetium-99m, within intact red cells and stroma and their distribution within the cell were compared in undamaged and heat damaged red cells in relation to the clinical use of heat damaged cells in the assessment of sple...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Peters AM,Osman S,Reavy HJ,Chambers B,Deenmamode M,Lewis SM

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The principal neuropathological and general pathological findings in a group of 24 patients with renal transplants who died in a nine-year period at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, are described. Opportunistic infections--bacterial, protozoal, and fungal--were the commonest causes of death. Other causes included cardi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Morton R,Graham DI,Briggs JD,Hamilton DN

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with multiple myeloma had antigenically related monoclonal Fc-gamma fragments and complete IgG-kappa molecules in the serum. The urine contained only Fc-gamma fragments in the absence of Bence-Jones protein. The two distinct M-components in the serum showed electrophoretic identity but could be separated by ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Bartoloni C,Flamini G,Gentiloni N,Russo MA,Barone C,Gambassi G,Terranova T

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred sera from 49 patients with glandular toxoplasmosis were examined by a latex agglutination test, the dye test, an indirect haemagglutination test, and a double antibody sandwich enzyme linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for antitoxoplasma IgM. The results support previous findings that the dye test, indirec...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Payne RA,Francis JM,Kwantes W

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sodium-alpha-naphthylamine-4-sulphonate (Naphthionin) appears to shorten the bleeding time in normal subjects and to be of value in the management of the bleeding defect in patients with thrombocytopenia when given by intravenous or intramuscular injection. A good response was achieved in three patients suffering from...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： POLLER L,MORE JR

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Glasgow Prognostic Score (GPS), an inflammation-based prognostic score formed from standard thresholds of C reactive protein (CRP) and albumin, has prognostic value in patients with advanced cancer. Little is known about the general biochemical disturbance associated with the systemic inflammatory respon...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Brown DJ,Milroy R,Preston T,McMillan DC

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To document the features of the so-called aplastic presentation of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and to determine whether this prodrome can be distinguished from aplasia. METHODS:The peripheral blood and bone marrow appearances of all cases of childhood ALL presenting in one health region of Engla...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reid MM,Summerfield GP

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:Leucocyte ascorbate (LA) and serum ascorbate (SA) were measured in patients who had sustained an acute cerebrovascular accident. There was a significant fall in LA and Sa within 24 hours of the incident and this persisted for several weeks. The "stress" of the event resulted in a rise in serum cortisol concentration a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Hume R,Vallance BD,Muir MM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A system is described for the maintenance of cumulative haematology records for selected patients using a laboratory minicomputer with limited storage capacity. Records are indexed by the patient's name and location since, as in the majority of hospital laboratories, there is no unique numbering scheme which covers al...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Alexander MK,Corbett MT,Reed RW

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The clinical and pathological findings in 23 patients with ischaemic lesions of the alimentary tract (ischaemic enterocolitis) are described. These are compared with findings in 13 patients with occlusive thrombosis of the superior mesenteric artery. The pathological features distinguishing the two conditions are disc...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： McDonald GS,Hourihane DO

更新日期：1972-02-01 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：AIMS:Acute traumatic coagulopathy is characterised by fibrinolysis and low fibrinogen. It is unclear how much fibrinogenolysis contributes to reduce fibrinogen levels. The study aim was to: investigate in vitro the effects of tissue-plasminogen activator (t-PA) and tranexamic acid (TXA) on coagulation and fibrinolysis....

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Godier A,Parmar K,Manandhar K,Hunt BJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori associated gastric cancer arises via a multistage process, with atrophic gastritis being the precursor lesion. Helicobacter pylori is typically acquired in childhood, yet little is known of the prevalence of atrophic gastritis in childhood. AIM:To study atrophic gastritis among children ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Ricuarte O,Gutierrez O,Cardona H,Kim JG,Graham DY,El-Zimaity HM

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To develop a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for the specific detection of the C protein gene in strains of group B Streptococcus. METHODS:A single primer pair derived from the nucleotide sequence of the IgA binding beta antigen of the C protein complex permitted the specific amplification of a 592 base pair DNA f...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Mawn JA,Simpson AJ,Heard SR

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To audit the cellular expression of the innate antibacterial enzyme lysozyme in colonic biopsies from a cohort of patients having microscopic colitis (MC-collagenous colitis (CC) or lymphocytic colitis (LC)). Results were compared with those recorded in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of the colon (...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Rubio CA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is one of the most important causes of sexually transmitted disease. We do not fully understand the pathogenesis of infection with this organism, although recent improvements in immunological and molecular techniques have brought us closer to an answer. These techniques are now also being used to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Easmon CS,Ison CA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbit antiserum, elicited by the intravenous injection of a strain of Campylobacter jejuni heated to 100 degrees C, cross reacted strongly with all other thermophilic campylobacters tested as well as with "C pyloridis" and could be detected by indirect fluorescence with labelled anti-rabbit serum. Antisera to formali...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Price AB,Dolby JM,Dunscombe PR,Stirling J

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several DNA extraction techniques were quantitatively and qualitatively compared using both fresh and paraffin wax embedded tissue and their suitability investigated for providing DNA and RNA for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). A one hour incubation with proteinase K was the most efficient DNA extraction procedur...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jackson DP,Lewis FA,Taylor GR,Boylston AW,Quirke P

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two cases of Wegener's granulomatosis are described in which the early and predominating lesions were found in the breast. The histological features of breast necrosis with granulomatous inflammation and widespread vasculitis in the breast in the absence of any demonstrable pathogens enabled a presumptive diagnosis to...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Pambakian H,Tighe JR

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes two cases of Osler's triad of pneumonia, meningitis, and endocarditis, as a result of Streptococcus pneumoniae infection, also called Austrian's syndrome. In the first patient, a 51 year old non-alcoholic man, the aortic valve was affected and needed to be replaced in an emergency operation. The ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： du Cheyron D,Lesage A,Le Page O,Flais F,Leclercq R,Charbonneau P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neutrophil shape change response to a chemotactic formylpeptide was assessed. Neutrophil bipolar shape formation (BSF) was also simultaneously assessed with a Boyden chamber-based neutrophil migration assay. Both assays were precise and relatively reproducible; the average coefficient of variation for the BSF assa...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Lord RA,Roath S

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The histopathological diagnosis of low-grade dysplasia (LGD) in Barrett's oesophagus (BO) is associated with poor interobserver agreement and guidelines dictate expert review. To facilitate nationwide expert review in the Netherlands, a web-based digital review panel has been set up, which currently consists of ei...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Klaver E,van der Wel M,Duits L,Pouw R,Seldenrijk K,Offerhaus J,Visser M,Ten Kate F,Biermann K,Brosens L,Doukas M,Huysentruyt C,Karrenbeld A,Kats-Ugurlu G,van der Laan J,van Lijnschoten I,Moll F,Ooms A,Tijssen J,Meij

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polyclonal antiserum, produced in sheep and reactive against purified human leucocyte elastase, has been applied to paraffin sections from a range of human tissues by means of the indirect immunoperoxidase method. Striking and consistent results have been obtained. Normal or inflammatory granulocytes were intensely ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical pathology

authors： Crocker J,Jenkins R,Burnett D

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00