Does polycythemia affect interleukin-6 response pattern in early postnatal period?

abstract：AIM:To evaluate, retrospectively, the frequency of autoantibodies of antiphospholipid syndrome (APLS) in Tunisian patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC). PATIENTS AND METHODS:We analyzed 80 PBC sera and 80 sera from blood donors. ELISA was used to determine the frequency of antibodies against cardiolipin (aCL I...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Mankaï A,Manoubi W,Ghozzi M,Melayah S,Sakly W,Ghedira I

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) isoenzymes as markers of breast cancer metastases and treatment efficacy has received little attention. Twenty-six breast cancer women (56+/-13 years, all post-menopausal) were prospectively evaluated during their first and third course of chemotherapy (4-week interval). Ser...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Le Bricon T,Gay-Bellile C,Cottu P,Benlakehal M,Guillon H,Houzé P

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using commercially available ELISA kits, serum IL-6 and TNF-alpha levels in healthy adults, and the levels of various cytokines in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis or chronic viral liver diseases, were investigated. IL-6 levels of healthy subjects were distributed in a wide range, and the distribution patter...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yamashiki M,Kosaka Y,Nishimura A,Watanabe S,Nomoto M,Ichida F

更新日期：1998-01-01 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：:We described an automated enzymatic assay for conjugated bilirubin (Bc) in serum using the Iatro D-Bil kit, with bilirubin oxidase (EC 1.3.3.5 BOD) from Myrothecium species. The specificity of the enzyme in the Iatro D-Bil kit was examined by analyzing unconjugated bilirubin (Bu), delta bilirubin (Bdelta), and Bc with...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kimura S,Iyama S,Yamaguchi Y,Hayashi S,Yanagihara T

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cellular and brain metabolism of dopamine can be correlated with a number of neurodegenerative disorders, our study was to explore a simple and efficient method to detect dopamine in real samples. METHODS:A new quantum dots (CdTe QDs) could be prepared using the hydrothermal method, the electrochemical bios...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yu HW,Zhang Z,Jiang JH,Pan HZ,Chang D

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has traditionally been used to detect myeloperoxidase (MPO) and proteinase 3 (PR3) antibodies, although it is time-consuming and physically demanding. As a novel and highly effective immunoassay, we compared chemiluminescent immunoassay (CIA) with ELISA to verify the...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hou X,Liu J,Wang T,Zhou J,Cui L

更新日期：2020-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Miltenberger (Mi) series are the collective glycophorin hybrids in the MNS blood group system. Mi series are composed of several subtypes, for examples, GP.Mur, GP.Hop, and GP.Bun. The incompatibility of Mi series blood transfusion poses the risk of hemolysis. Due to the lack of standard antibodies for Mi se...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Vongsakulyanon A,Pipatpanukul C,Kitpoka P,Kunakorn M,Srikhirin T

更新日期：2016-11-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to explore the correlations of long non-coding RNA MALAT1 (lncRNA MALAT1) and its targets microRNA (miR)-125b, miR-133, miR-146a, and miR-203 with acute exacerbation risk, inflammation, and disease severity of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS:Plasma samples were obtained ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Liu S,Liu M,Dong L

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although recent studies have indicated that gut microbiome dysbiosis was significantly associated with the onset of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), information on the role of blood microbiome in T2DM development is scarce. METHODS:Fifty incident T2DM cases and 100 matched non-T2DM controls were selected fr...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Qiu J,Zhou H,Jing Y,Dong C

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Shortening of primary cilia in kidney epithelial cells is associated with kidney injury and involved with the induced level of α-tubulin in urine. Therefore, rapid detection and quantification of α-tubulin in the urine samples could be used to the preliminary diagnosis of kidney injury. METHODS:Cellulose-b...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Choi ES,Al Faruque H,Kim JH,Cho JH,Park KM,Kim E

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:(a) To evaluate the clinical performance of endocrine analytes using the sigma metrics (σ) model. (b) To redesign quality control strategies for performance improvement. METHODS:The sigma values of the analytes were initially evaluated based on the allowable total error (TEa), bias, and coefficient of varia...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Liu Y,Cao Y,Liu X,Wu L,Cai W

更新日期：2020-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 103 patients seen in our Prostate Cancer Detection Clinic to determine whether a correlation exists between serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) values and ultrasound-calculated prostate gland volume. Seventy men (68%) had a PSA value less than or equal to 4 ng/ml (our upper limit of normal). The men were ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Babaian RJ,Fritsche HA,Evans RB

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification of biomarkers for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is important for treating this malignancy. Recent studies have reported that microRNAs (miRNAs) are stably detectable in the blood/plasma and can be used as biomarkers for various types of cancer including AML. The aim of this study was to analyze...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yu G,Yin Z,He H,Zheng Z,Chai Y,Xuan L,Lin R,Wang Q,Li J,Xu D

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neuron-specific enolase (NSE) is a recognized biomarker for the assessment of cerebral injury in neurological disorders. This study aims to report a definitive assessment of the biological variation (BV) components of this biomarker, including within-subject BV (CVI), between-subject BV (CVG), index of indiv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Matyar S,Goruroglu Ozturk O,Ziyanoglu Karacor E,Yuzbasioglu Ariyurek S,Sahin G,Kibar F,Yaman A,Inal T

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods for the extraction of RNA of vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) Indiana1 and New Jersey and their simultaneous amplification by one-step polymerase chain reaction using reverse transcriptase were evaluated. A guanidine-thiocyanate-based RNA extraction (Qiagen RNeasy Mini Kit, Qiagen, Valencia, CA ) followed ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Arshed MJ,Magnuson RJ,Triantis J,Abubakar M,Van Campen H,Salman M

更新日期：2011-01-01 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:Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is the leading cause of death in developing and developed countries, yet assessing the risk of its development remains challenging. Several lines of evidence indicate that small, dense low-density lipoproteins (sd-LDL) are associated with increased cardiovascular disease risk. W...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Wu B,Yu Z,Tong T,Tong X,Yang Y,Tang Y,Ren H,Liao Y,Liao J

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modification of the existing spectrophotometric kinetic method for the determination of pancuronium bromide (PCBr), based on pooled human serum cholinesterase (ChE, EC 3.1.1.8 acylcholine acylhydrolase) inhibition, was developed. Butyrylthiocholine iodide (concentration 1.667 mmol/L) was used as substrate and determ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Stankov-Jovanovic VP,Nikolic-Mandic SD,Mandic LjM,Mitic VD

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:N-terminal pro-Brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is an important biomarker to indicate cardiac function, but its significance in cardiac surgery is still unclear. OBJECTIVE:To explore clinical significance of serum NT-proBNP and their dynamic characteristics in patients with cardiac valve replacement (C...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Cai B,Wang L,Liu J,Shi Y,Guo Y

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether IL-1 beta (IL-1beta promoter and IL-1beta exon 5), IL-1 receptor antagonist (IL-1 Ra), and IL-4 (IL-4 promoter and IL-4 intron 3) gene polymorphisms act as markers of susceptibility to Kawasaki disease (KD), or of the severity of the disease. The study included 107 KD ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Wu SF,Chang JS,Wan L,Tsai CH,Tsai FJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We propose a simple, sensitive, and fast high-performance liquid chromatography ultraviolet detection (HPLC-UV) method for the quantitative determination of bosutinib in human plasma. METHODS:Plasma samples were processed using an Oasis hydrophilic-lipophilic balance extraction cartridge (1 mL, 30 mg). Bosu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sumimoto T,Nakahara R,Sato Y,Itoh H

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a high prevalence of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection in China. The aim of this article is to reveal the HBV prevalence and its outcome in southern China by analyzing the HBV serum markers and their relationship to HBV genotype. METHODS:HBV serum markers, HBV-DNA and Alanine aminotransferase (ALT)...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lin S,Liu C,Shang H,Chen H,Yang B,Chen J,Chen Y,Chen D,Ou Q

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method that could be facilitated for the quantitation and qualitation of gangliosides in human plasma was developed and applied in the present study for characterization of ganglioside patterns in plasmas of patients with neoplastic diseases including gastric cancer, adult T-cell leukemia (ATL), and acute lymphocyti...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ayabe M,Shichijo S,Yokoyama MM

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coronary artery disease (CAD) was the second leading cause of death for the past 3 years in Taiwan. The insulin-like growth factor (IGF) system is considered a new risk factor of CAD because investigations show that the levels and bioactivity of IGF-I and IGFBP-3 (where IGFBP is insulin-like growth factor-bi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lin HL,Ueng KC,Wang HL,Chen TP,Yang SF,Chu SC,Hsieh YS

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli are seldom demonstrated in tuberculous pleural effusion (TPE) by conventional bacteriological methods. In this study, an indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed to detect IgG against four mycobacterial recombinant antigens (ESAT-6, PlcA, HspX and Tb8.4) in 69...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sumi S,Radhakrishnan VV

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Sex-determining region Y-box 30 (SOX30) suppresses progression of several cancers, whereas its role in breast cancer is unclear. Therefore, we aimed to determine the correlation of SOX30 with tumor characteristics and prognosis in breast cancer patients. METHODS:The tumor samples of 510 breast cancer patient...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Peng H,Luo Y,Wu J,Yin W

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:This present study aimed to investigate the correlation of circular RNA SMARCA5 (circ-SMARCA5) with clinicopathological features and overall survival (OS), and the effect of circ-SMARCA5 on cell proliferation and chemotherapy sensitivity to cisplatin/gemcitabine in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC). METH...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lu Q,Fang T

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00