suPAR: the molecular crystal ball.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous studies on the role of inflammation in the pathophysiology of sickle cell disease (SCD) suggested that the CCR5Δ32 allele, which is responsible for the production of truncated C-C chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5), could confer a selective advantage on patients with SCD because it leads to a less eff...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Lopes MP,Santos MN,Faber EW,Bezerra MA,Hatzlhofer BL,Albuquerque DM,Zaccariotto TR,Ribeiro DM,Araújo Ada S,Costa FF,Sonati Mde F

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The atomic force microscope (AFM) is emerging as a powerful tool in cell biology. Originally developed for high-resolution imaging purposes, the AFM also has unique capabilities as a nano-indenter to probe the dynamic viscoelastic material properties of living cells in culture. In particular, AFM elastography combines...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Costa KD

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulating evidence suggests that the tumor microenvironment has a profound influence on tumor initiation and progression, opening a new avenue for studying tumor biology. Nonetheless, the prognostic values of the peritumoral expression of EpCAM and CD13 remain to be elucidated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) pati...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Dai XM,Huang T,Yang SL,Zheng XM,Chen GG,Zhang T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in elderly people worldwide and the major degenerative disease of the retina that leads to progressive impairment of central vision. Several polymorphisms in different genes have been proposed as factors that increase the disease susceptibili...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Barchitta M,Maugeri A

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GROβ (CXCL2) is a chemokine produced by endotoxin-treated macrophages that mediates inflammation and tumor development. However, little is known about GROβ expression in gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) or the relationship between GROβ expression and clinical attributes of GIST. GROβ expression was examined via ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Zhao H,Zhu H,Jin Q,Zhang S,Wang W,Wang D,Huang J

更新日期：2015-01-01 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 (IgAN) is a kidney disease with a varying renal prognosis. Recently, many studies have demonstrated that renal alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA) and transforming growth factor (TGF-beta1) expression, as well interstitial mast cell infiltrates could represent a prognostic marker in several renal dis...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Silva GE,Costa RS,Ravinal RC,dos Reis MA,Dantas M,Coimbra TM

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cystic fibrosis is a monogenic recessive disorder found predominantly in Caucasian population. This disease arises from mutations in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene. In this study we consider poly T polymorphism c.1210-12T[5], c.1210-12T[7], c.1210-12T[9] (T{5}, T{7}, T{9}...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Tabaripour R,Niaki HA,Douki MR,Bazzaz JT,Larijani B,Yaghmaei P

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cardiac troponin levels have been reported to add value in the detection of cardiovascular complications in noncardiac surgery. A sensitive cardiac troponin I (cTnI) assay could provide more accurate prognostic information. METHODS:This study prospectively enrolled 142 patients with at least one Revised Car...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Borges FK,Furtado MV,Rossini AP,Bertoluci C,Gonzalez VL,Bertoldi EG,Pezzali LG,Machado DL,Grutcki DM,Rech LG,Magalhães M,Polanczyk CA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soluble vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is a promising biomarker in monitoring rheumatoid arthritis (RA), but studies of pre-analytical and biologic variability are few. METHODS:VEGF was measured by ELISA methods in serum and plasma from healthy persons and RA patients. Pre-analytical factors were...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Hetland ML,Christensen IJ,Lottenburger T,Johansen JS,Svendsen MN,Hørslev-Petersen K,Nielsen L,Nielsen HJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This study was designed to correlate the serum and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) levels of progranulin (PGRN) and high sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs CRP) in chronic periodontitis and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). DESIGN:PGRN and hs CRP levels were estimated in 3 groups: healthy, chronic periodonti...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Priyanka N,Kumari M,Kalra N,Arjun P,Naik SB,Pradeep AR

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analyses of DR1 positive peripheral blood leukocytes DNA was carried out. The Taq I digested DNA was hybridized with cDNA probes for HLA-DR and -DQ beta genes. The DR probe detected fragments commonly observed in the DR1 specificity, whereas a new DQ-beta fragment was de...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Redford A,Magalong D,Onohara-Toyoda M,Tyan D,Riley WJ,Maclaren NK,Rotter JI,Toyoda H

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To study the changes of the metabolic profile during the pathogenesis in monocrotaline (MCT) induced pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). METHODS:Forty male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were randomly divided into 5 groups (n = 8, each). PAH rats were induced by a single dose intraperitoneal injection of 60 mg/kg MC...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Lin T,Gu J,Huang C,Zheng S,Lin X,Xie L,Lin D

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:To evaluate the performance of serum and urinary sCD163 concentrations as possible biomarker in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Methods:Urine and serum samples were obtained from SSc patients and age- and sex-matched controls. Serum and urinary sCD163 concentrations were measured by commercially available ELISA ki...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Frantz C,Pezet S,Avouac J,Allanore Y

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1155/2016/2138627.]. ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Marrugal Á,Ojeda L,Paz-Ares L,Molina-Pinelo S,Ferrer I

更新日期：2018-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung disease due to non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is a poorly understood condition that is difficult to treat. Treatment remains problematic as few tools are available to help clinicians monitor disease progression or predict treatment outcome. In this study, plasma levels of several inflammatory molecules and th...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Lim A,Allison C,Tan DB,Oliver B,Price P,Waterer G

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular (LV) structural and functional alterations in hypertension has some limitations, potentially overcome by using biomarkers. ST2, a prognostic biomarker for heart failure and myocardial infarction patients, was less studied in hypertension. AIM:To analyze the r...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Farcaş AD,Anton FP,Goidescu CM,Gavrilă IL,Vida-Simiti LA,Stoia MA

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Purpose:To investigate the association of galectin-3 (Gal-3) and soluble ST2 (sST2) and their follow-up changes with the development of heart failure (HF) and echocardiographic parameters of HF (ejection fraction, atrial and ventricular size, left ventricular hypertrophy, e', and E/e') in patients with ST-segment eleva...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Tymińska A,Kapłon-Cieślicka A,Ozierański K,Budnik M,Wancerz A,Sypień P,Peller M,Balsam P,Opolski G,Filipiak KJ

更新日期：2019-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The clinical behavior of unicystic ameloblastoma varies according to its subtype. The assessment of its proliferative capacity, neovascularization, and invasiveness using relevant immunomarkers may aid in appropriate surgical therapeutic protocol. METHODS:18 cases of clinically and histologically confirmed uni...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Sah P,Menon A,Kamath A,Chandrashekar C,Carnelio S,Radhakrishnan R

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Keloids are benign fibroproliferative tumors of the skin which commonly occur after injury mainly in darker skinned patients. Medical treatment is fraught with high recurrence rates mainly because of an incomplete understanding of the biological mechanisms that lead to keloids. The purpose of this project was to exami...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Jones LR,Young W,Divine G,Datta I,Chen KM,Ozog D,Worsham MJ

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsatellite instability (MSI) analysis is becoming more and more important to detect sporadic primary tumors of the MSI phenotype as well as in helping to determine Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer (HNPCC) cases. After some years of conflicting data due to the absence of consensus markers for the MSI phen...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Buhard O,Suraweera N,Lectard A,Duval A,Hamelin R

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：:MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small, non-coding RNA molecules that can regulate gene expression, thereby affecting crucial processes in cancer development. miRNAs offer great potential as biomarkers for cancer detection because of their remarkable stability in blood and their characteristic expression in different...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Mar-Aguilar F,Mendoza-Ramírez JA,Malagón-Santiago I,Espino-Silva PK,Santuario-Facio SK,Ruiz-Flores P,Rodríguez-Padilla C,Reséndez-Pérez D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the many studies examining thyroid cancers, the effect of thyroid autoantibodies on differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) remains unclear. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the association between serologic thyroid autoantibodies (ATAs) and DTC, we retrospectively evaluated data of thyroid nodules obtained ...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Qin J,Yu Z,Guan H,Shi L,Liu Y,Zhao N,Shan Z,Han C,Li Y,Teng W

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the world's leading skin cancer in terms of frequency at the moment and its incidence continues to rise each year, leading to profound negative psychosocial and economic consequences. UV exposure is the most important environmental factor in the development of BCC in genetically predispos...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Lupu M,Caruntu C,Ghita MA,Voiculescu V,Voiculescu S,Rosca AE,Caruntu A,Moraru L,Popa IM,Calenic B,Greabu M,Costea DE

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:We have previously shown that the deficiency of the gut enzyme intestinal alkaline phosphatase (IAP) is associated with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) in humans, and mice deficient in IAP develop the metabolic syndrome, a precipitant of T2DM and ischemic heart disease (IHD). We hypothesized that IAP deficie...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Malo J,Alam MJ,Shahnaz M,Kaliannan K,Chandra G,Aziz T,Sarker T,Bala M,Paul R,Saha CK,Karmakar PK,Malo MS

更新日期：2019-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to verify the role of CEA in the differential diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and to evaluate some influencing factors like age, tumor spread and liver dysfunction, this antigen was measured in the sera of 60 control subjects, 45 patients with pancreatic cancer, 37 with chronic pancreatitis, 67 with benign, an...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Basso D,Fabris C,Del Favero G,Angonese C,Meggiato T,Infantino A,Plebani M,Piccoli A,Leandro G,Burlina A

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent researches, high expression of nesfatin-1/nucleobindin-2 (NUCB2) is linked to poor prognosis in prostate and colon cancer due to the enhancement in proliferation, migration, and invasion. However, the role of nesfatin-1 in bladder cancer is not clear. In this study, we examined the expression of NUCB2 in bla...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： Liu GM,Xu ZQ,Ma HS

更新日期：2018-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously identified an allele of the human SP-A2 gene that occurs with greater frequency in an RDS population [12]. Because of the importance of SP-A in normal lung function and its newly emerging role in innate host defense and regulation of inflammatory processes, we wish to better characterize genotypes o...

journal_title：Disease markers

authors： DiAngelo S,Lin Z,Wang G,Phillips S,Ramet M,Luo J,Floros J

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00