Lung cancer stem cells.

abstract：Background:The ratio of early mitral inflow velocity to the global diastolic strain rate (E/E'sr) and global longitudinal systolic strain (GLS) of the left ventricle (LV) are emerging indices of diastolic and systolic functions, respectively, for the LV. Their prognostic significance in the prediction of mortality and ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Huang JC,Su HM,Wu PY,Lee JJ,Lee WH,Chen SC,Chiu YW,Hsu YL,Chang JM,Chen HC

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditional lipid measures are the cornerstone of risk assessment and treatment goals in cardiovascular prevention. Whereas the association between total, LDL-, HDL-cholesterol and cardiovascular disease risk has been generally acknowledged, the rather poor capacity to distinguish between patients who will and those w...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： van Wijk DF,Stroes ES,Kastelein JJ

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Paraoxonase-1 (PON1) activity is suggested to be altered in individuals infected with human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1). We investigated PON1 activity in individuals receiving different regimens of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). METHODS:PON1 activity was evaluated in 91 HIV-1 serone...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Maselli LM,da Cunha J,Gutierrez EB,Maranhão RC,Spada C,Bydlowski SP

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the combined effects of MMP-2 and TIMP-2 protein immunoreactivities on the prognosis in endometrial carcinoma. METHODS:Paraffin-embedded tissue samples from 225 primary endometrioid adenocarcinomas and 13 histologies other than endometrioid adenocarcinoma were immunohist...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Honkavuori-Toivola M,Santala M,Soini Y,Turpeenniemi-Hujanen T,Talvensaari-Mattila A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing interest in the usability of saliva has been observed recently. Using saliva as a diagnostic material is possible because it contains a varied range of composites, organic and inorganic like proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids, which are secreted into saliva. Moreover, this applies to drugs and their metabol...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Kułak-Bejda A,Waszkiewicz N,Bejda G,Zalewska A,Maciejczyk M

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We aimed to determine whether serum soluble CD30 (sCD30) could identify recipients at high risk for unfavorable early and late kidney transplant outcomes. METHODS:Serum sCD30 was measured on the day of kidney transplantation and on the 4th day posttransplant. We assessed the value of these measurements in p...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Trailin AV,Ostapenko TI,Nykonenko TN,Nesterenko SN,Nykonenko OS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A limited number of studies have been performed so far on the polymorphism in the transmembrane region (exon 5) of the major histocompatibility complex class I chain-related gene A (MICA) in patients with melanoma. However, the influence of MICA polymorphism in extracellular domains (exons 2, 3, and 4) has not been in...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Campillo JA,López-Hernández R,Martínez-Banaclocha H,Bolarín JM,Gimeno L,Mrowiec A,López M,Las Heras B,Minguela A,Moya-Quiles MR,Legáz I,Frías-Iniesta JF,García-Alonso AM,Álvarez-López MR,Martínez-Escribano JA,Muro M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies against myelin oligodendrocyte antigens have been found in the immunoreactive brain lesions of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients. Recently it has been proposed that these antibodies can be used as a prognostic marker in the course of disease. However, the serum levels of these autoantibodies during different...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Angelucci F,Mirabella M,Frisullo G,Caggiula M,Tonali PA,Batocchi AP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kidney insufficiency is a hallmark of nephropathia epidemica (NE). Little is known about the mechanisms of the NE kidney pathology, with current knowledge mainly based on findings in postmortem tissue. We have analyzed kidney damage biomarkers in urine collected from early- and late-phase NE using Bio-Plex kidney toxi...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Martynova EV,Maksudova AN,Shakirova VG,Abdulkhakov SR,Khaertynova IM,Anokhin VA,Ivanova VV,Abiola IM,Garanina EE,Tazetdinova LG,Valiullina AH,Khaiboullina SF

更新日期：2018-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:PIZ allele frequencies were defined by PCR amplification and hybridization using a PIZ SSO (sequence specific oligonucleotide) probe. The groups studied included 64 normal controls, 104 subjects with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) without any extra-articular features, 29 of whom had severe arthritis and 31 of whom had mild...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Steers G,McMahon MJ,Grennan DM,Hillarby MC

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2017/1202710.]. ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Jiang T,Yang C,Ma L,Wu Z,Ye L,Ma X,Li H,Fan J,Yang Y

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:RARβ plays a critical role in cancer progression and is associated with several types of human cancer. It remains unclear, however, whether it is linked to the clinicopathological parameters of colorectal cancer (CRC). We therefore determined the expression of RARβ protein in patients with primary CRC and examined its...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Wang W,Liu S,Jiang C,Wang Y,Zhu H,Wang X

更新日期：2019-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to assess the expression of MMP-9 and TIMP-1 in cancerous tissue as well as in the serum and plasma concentrations of these proteins in patients with laryngeal cancer and compare the results to the inflammatory reaction in healthy subjects. Twenty-seven patients who were diagnosed with laryng...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Matulka M,Konopka A,Mroczko B,Pryczynicz A,Kemona A,Groblewska M,Sieskiewicz A,Olszewska E

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic variation at the Apolipoprotein E locus (APOE) is an important determinant of plasma lipids and has been implicated in various human pathological conditions. The objective of the present study was to estimate the distribution of APOE alleles in five Venezuelan communities: two Amerindian tribes (Bari and Y...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Fernández-Mestre MT,Yehirobi C,Montagnani S,Balbas O,Layrisse Z

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiovascular diseases are the main causes of mortality. Sudden cardiac death may also appear in athletes, due to underlying congenital or inherited cardiac abnormalities. The electrocardiogram is used in clinical practice and clinical trials, as a valid, reliable, accessible, inexpensive method. The aim of the prese...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Mozos I,Caraba A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current problems in obtaining suitable monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) for in vivo imaging and therapy can now be bypassed using protein-engineering rather than conventional hybridoma technology. Rodent antibody binding sites can be grafted onto human acceptor antibodies thus reshaping the human MoAbs into reagents with...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Verhoeyen ME,Saunders JA,Broderick EL,Eida SJ,Badley RA

更新日期：1991-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A multitude of host genetic factors plays a crucial role in susceptibility to HIV-1 infection and progression to AIDS, which is highly variable among individuals and populations. This review focuses on the chemokine-receptor and chemokine genes, which were extensively studied because of their role as HIV co-receptor o...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Chatterjee A,Rathore A,Vidyant S,Kakkar K,Dhole TN

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonenzymatic glycosylation or glycation of macromolecules, especially proteins leading to their oxidation, play an important role in diseases. Glycation of proteins primarily results in the formation of an early stage and stable Amadori-lysine product which undergo further irreversible chemical reactions to form advan...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Ansari NA,Moinuddin,Ali R

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study was conducted to find out the optimal vitamin D cutoff point in predicting activity of RA disease. MATERIALS AND METHODS:One hundred and two rheumatoid arthritis Saudi patients of both genders were recruited in this study. Vitamin D as 25-hydroxy-vitamin D [25(OH)D] was measured and serum level less tha...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Azzeh FS,Kensara OA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apelin plays important roles in cardiovascular homeostasis. However, its effects on the mechanoenergetics of heart failure (HF) are unavailable. We attempted to investigate the effects of apelin on the left ventricular-arterial coupling (VAC) and mechanical efficiency in rats with HF. HF was induced in rats by the lig...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Ouyang Q,You T,Guo J,Xu R,Guo Q,Lin J,Zhao H

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunization with a pandemic influenza A H1N1 2009 was recommended for HIV-infected patients. However, there is limited information concerning the impact of immunization with this vaccine on immune activation and HIV viral replication. In this study, 45 HIV-infected children and adolescents receiving antiretroviral th...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Onlamoon N,Unpol P,Boonchan M,Sukapirom K,Wittawatmongkol O,Chokephaibulkit K,Ammaranond P,Pattanapanyasat K

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The total plasma concentration of homocysteine is a marker of this amino acid's atherogenic potential. However, the homocysteine pool exists almost entirely as oxidized homocysteine equivalents (OHcyE), composed of homocystine and cysteine-homocysteine disulphides (20-30%), and protein-bound disulphide (70-80%). We ha...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Iuliano M,De Tommaso G,Ragone R

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclin Y (CCNY) is a novel cyclin and almost nothing is known about its role in human cancers. To investigate the clinical significance of serum anti-CCNY autoantibodies in nonsmall-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), the serum levels of CCNY protein in 264 patients with NSCLC, 103 patients with tuberculosis, and 89 healthy ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Ma L,Yue W,Teng Y,Zhang L,Gu M,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is the body fluid closest to the pathology of multiple sclerosis (MS). For many candidate biomarkers CSF is the only fluid that can be investigated. Several factors need to be standardized when sampling CSF for biomarker research: time/volume of CSF collection, sample processing/storage, and ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Giovannoni G

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IgA nephropathy is diagnosed by renal biopsy, an invasive procedure with a risk of significant complications. Noninvasive approaches are needed for possible diagnostic purposes and especially for monitoring disease activity or responses to treatment. In this pilot project, we assessed the utility of urine samples as s...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Neprasova M,Maixnerova D,Novak J,Reily C,Julian BA,Boron J,Novotny P,Suchanek M,Tesar V,Kacer P

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Increases in red blood cell distribution width (RDW) and NT-proBNP (N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide) predict the mortality of chronic heart failure patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT). It was hypothesized that RDW is independent of and possibly even superior to NT-proBNP fro...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Boros AM,Perge P,Jenei Z,Karády J,Zima E,Molnár L,Becker D,Gellér L,Prohászka Z,Merkely B,Széplaki G

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide due to latent liver disease, late diagnosis, and nonresponse to systemic treatments. Till now, surgical and/or biopsy specimens are still generally used as a gold standard by the clinicians for clinical decision-making. Howeve...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Yin CQ,Yuan CH,Qu Z,Guan Q,Chen H,Wang FB

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A possible association between the TACC3 rs798766 polymorphism and urinary bladder cancer risk has been indicated in published literature. We performed this meta-analysis as a synthesis of all relevant data to summarize currently available evidence and to provide estimation with increased precision. METHODS...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Meng XY,Shi MJ,Chen JF,Liao Y,Hu BW,Hireche A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Autism is among the commonest neurodevelopmental childhood disorders worldwide; its aetiology is still unknown. Iron metabolism alteration in the central nervous system is recently implicated as a risk factor for several neurodegenerative disorders. Haemochromatosis HFE gene polymorphisms (p.H63D and p.C282Y...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Gebril OH,Meguid NA

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the most common viral respiratory pathogen during infancy world wide. It induces innate and adaptive immune response in host cells. The toll like receptor 4 (TLR4)/CD14 complex is particularly important for the initiation of an innate immune response to RSV. Thus we were interested...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Puthothu B,Forster J,Heinzmann A,Krueger M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00