Comparison of various methods for the enumeration of blood cells in urine.

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines play crucial role in the development and functions of placenta. Any changes in these cytokines may be associated with many pregnancy-related disorders like preeclampsia. Therefore, the present study is aimed to study the expression of pro-inflammatory (TNF-α, IL-6) ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Aggarwal R,Jain AK,Mittal P,Kohli M,Jawanjal P,Rath G

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the Technicon DPA-1 immunoassay analyzer on its analytical characteristics. Therefore we studied three assays: albumin in cerebrospinal fluid and IgG and transferrin in serum. When tested with the Cusum test for linearity albumin, IgG, and transferrin measurements showed no deviation from linearity. Close...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： van Rijn JL,van Landeghem AA,Goldschmidt HM

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of free digoxin levels in patients treated with digoxin immune FAb has long been a problematic area in clinical laboratory testing. The older radioimmunoassays resulted in inaccurate and variable results due to the competition of the administered drug with the radioactively labelled forms. The 1995 Physi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Honda SA,Rios CN,Murakami L,Morita T,Scottolini AG,Bhagavan NV

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study was aimed to investigate whether measurement of free testosterone and cortisol in saliva is a reliable alternative to their assessment in serum for monitoring physical fitness in professional athletes. METHODS:We studied 25 members of the soccer team Parma F.C., playing in Italian major football ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lippi G,Dipalo M,Buonocore R,Gnocchi C,Aloe R,Delsignore R

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA by nucleic acid amplification techniques is the method of choice to differentiate between ongoing and past infection, and can be used to monitor the course of HCV infection. In this study, we evaluated the performance characteristics of a newly developed transcription-media...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ross RS,Viazov SO,Hoffmann S,Roggendorf M

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and BNP measurement could have a significant role in differentiating dyspnea between cardiac or pulmonary origin in the emergency room. The development of new and different commercial assays for these B-type natriuretic peptides offers the possibility of improving a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sanz MP,Borque L,Rus A,Vicente B,Ramírez Y,Lasa L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early monitoring of HCVRNA during interferon treatment may allow clinicians to obtain important information that could help them to adopt therapeutic decisions in individual cases. The hepatitis C virus infection is highly dynamic and a daily high dose of IFN may induce a decline of viremia of 95+/-10% of baseline val...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Magalini A,Puoti M,Putzolu V,Quiros-Roldan E,Forleo MA,Rossi S,Zaltron S,Spinetti A,Zanini B,Zonaro A,Solfrini R,Carosi G

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A more sensitive and simpler immune complex transfer enzyme immunoassay for antithyroglobulin IgG in serum and its use for the measurement of antithyroglobulin IgG in healthy subjects and patients with thyroid diseases are described. Antithyroglobulin IgG in test serum was reacted simultaneously with dinitrophenylthyr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kohno T,Mitsukawa T,Matsukura S,Tsunetoshi Y,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:So far, there has been no tool to estimate activity at diagnosis and predict all-cause mortality in patients with ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV). Hence, we determined the initial predictors of them in patients with AAV. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 182 patients with AAV. Seve...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kim MK,Choi H,Kim JY,Song JJ,Park YB,Lee SW

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of high-molecular intestinal ALP (HIALP) overlapping with bone ALP in the alpha(2)beta region has been demonstrated. In this study we evaluated a method of separating HIALP after its conversion into ALP(5) by the action of protease. Serum samples from patients were mixed with protease at a ratio of 5:1 an...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ooi K,Shiraki K,Morishita Y,Nobori T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematological parameters are affected by different factors that include age, sex, smoking, ethnicity, and environmental altitude. It has been justified that each population must establish its own normal reference intervals to be used in clinical assessments and interpretations. Hematological reference intervals for ad...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sirdah MM,Tarazi IS,El Jeadi H,Al Haddad RM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To discover how NLRP3 and TNFRSF1A polymorphisms affect the efficacy of traditional medicine and etanercept for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) patients. METHODS:Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) and haplotype analyses were conducted based on determined NLRP3 and TNFRSF1A among AS patients. We subsequently a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhao S,Chen H,Wu G,Zhao C

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to investigate the status of internal quality control (IQC) for cardiac biomarkers from 2011 to 2016 so that we can have overall knowledge of the precision level of measurements in China and set appropriate precision specifications. METHODS:Internal quality control data of cardiac biomarker...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Li T,Wang W,Zhao H,He F,Zhong K,Yuan S,Wang Z

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lupus nephritis is one of the most serious manifestations of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Novel biomarkers are necessary to enhance the diagnostic accuracy, prognostic stratification, monitoring of treatment response, and detection of early renal flares. METHODS:Our study was conducted on 90 particip...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Mohammed MF,Belal D,Bakry S,Marie MA,Rashed L,Eldin RE,El-Hamid SA

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have shown that neutrophil lymphocyte ratio (NLR) is a strong indicator in determining inflammation in cardiac and non-cardiac diseases. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between proteinuria and NLR in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients without diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS:Between 2...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Binnetoğlu E,Şengül E,Halhallı G,Dindar S,Şen H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Reference intervals are critical for interpreting test results of a clinical laboratory. The aim of this study was to establish local reference intervals of complete blood count for healthy preschoolers in China. METHODS:Three thousand eight hundred and twenty-one blood specimens from children aged 4 months...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Wang GC,Li N,Niu C,Ma WB,Wang ZL,Guo H,Han LH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radioimmunoassay (RIA) that involves purification of the analyte by organic solvent extraction is widely used. Although the extraction RIA is reliable when properly validated, it is time consuming and radioactive, we measure urinary total testosterone with a highly sensitive rapid and accurate time-resolved fluorescen...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Bao S,Peng Y,Sheng S,Lin Q

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to investigate the plasma long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) expression profile in knee osteoarthritis (KOA) patients and the value of candidate lncRNAs for predicting KOA risk. METHODS:Plasma was obtained for RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) in eight KOA patients and eight healthy controls (Ctrls). Ten ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Liu X,Li M,Zhang B,Zhang N,Feng Q

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many years, fluorescence polarization immunoassay (FPIA) on the TDx analyzer has been used for determination of free phenytoin concentration. Recently Abbott Laboratories decided to discontinue the TDx analyzer and related assays on this analyzer. Free phenytoin assay is also available from Roche Diagnostics for a...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Dasgupta A,Davis B,Chow L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aimed to evaluate the association of circular RNA La-related RNA-binding protein 4 (circ-LARP4) with clinical features and prognosis in osteosarcoma patients, and further explore its effect on chemosensitivity in osteosarcoma cells. METHODS:Seventy-two osteosarcoma patients with Enneking stage II...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hu Y,Gu J,Shen H,Shao T,Li S,Wang W,Yu Z

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shortcomings of current methods of basophil enumeration detract from the clinical value of the basophil count. Moreover, sophisticated and costly techniques of automated basophil counting hardly can be validated for lack of a suitable reference method. We investigated whether a flow cytometric technique using doub...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hübl W,Andert S,Erath A,Streicher J,Bayer PM

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative determination of albumin (ALB) in human urine is important to assess kidney functions in a variety of diseases. Recently, Siemens released an improved Microalbumin assay (microALB_2) to measure urinary ALB on the automated, random access ADVIA 1650/1800, ADVIA 2400, and ADVIA 1200 Chemistry Systems. We ev...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Datta P,Dasgupta A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report nine donations with ABO inconsistency in reverse typing caused by partly or entirely missing antibodies. A and B antigens and antibodies were examined by serological blood typing, and ABO deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) analyses were performed by sequence-specific priming and sequencing. A B101 allele was demons...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Deng ZH,Zeng JQ,Yu Q,Su YQ,Liang YL,Lu L,Zhu WG,Yang BC

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The association between genetic variations of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene and the risk for atherosclerosis has been hypothesized. We aimed to assess the relationship between rs2010963 (+405 C/G) polymorphism and presence, severity, and outcome of coronary artery disease (CAD) in an Iranian...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kalayi Nia S,Ziaee S,Boroumand MA,Sotudeh Anvari M,Pourgholi L,Jalali A

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the involvement of herpes simplex virus (HSV) or Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) as potentially curable causes of central nervous system (CNS) infections in sub-Saharan Africa. OBJECTIVE:In this study, we developed a PCR assay dedicated to simultaneous testing of HSV1/HSV2 and MTB in ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zida S,Kolia-Diafouka P,Kania D,Sotto A,Foulongne V,Bolloré K,Ouangraoua S,Méda N,Carrère-Kremer S,Van de Perre P,Tuaillon E

更新日期：2019-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Novel molecular approaches have recently become available allowing improved major histocompatibility complex (MHC) matching of potential allogeneic bone marrow donors and recipients. Current cellular and serological assays are hindered by aberrant cell populations and limited reagents which only detect an individuals'...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Rubocki RJ,Wisecarver JL,Hook DD,Cox SM,Beisel KW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An immunoenzymometric assay (IEMA) for a new CA125-like antigen, CA602, was developed. Five monoclonal antibodies raised against a human ovarian carcinoma cell line could detect their respective antigens in the sera of ovarian carcinoma patients. The antigen levels detected in serum by the various antibodies correlate...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Mochizuki H,Sato I,Nagoya K,Furusako S,Yamauchi T,Masuko H,Sato H,Morishita H,Yajima M,Sasaki H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to investigate the serum total protein (TP), total sialic acid (TSA), lipid-associated sialic acid (LSA), LSA/TP, and LSA/TP values in type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients. Two study groups (healthy controls and type 2 DM subjects) were examined. For the type 2 DM group, 120 patients...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ekin S,Meral I,Gunduz H,Mert N

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida dubliniensis is a recently described pathogenic species which shares many phenotypic features with Candida albicans and therefore, may be misidentified in microbiological laboratories. Because molecular methods can be onerous and unfeasible in routine mycological laboratories with restricted budgets such as th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： de Loreto ES,Pozzatti P,Alves Scheid L,Santurio D,Morais Santurio J,Alves SH

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the role of serum periostin in patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH). METHOD:We conducted a retrospective study and 124 aSAH patients treated in Shenzhen People's hospital during March 1st 2015 to December 30th 2016 were included. Baseline information, neurological status and cli...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Luo W,Wang H,Hu J

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00