Effect of temperature on lysosomal enzyme activity during preparation and storage of dried blood spots.

abstract：:Several retrospective studies have shown that a high level of microsatellite instability (MSI-H) is an important prognostic factor of a more favorable outcome in stage II and III colorectal cancer (CRC) patients. In this study, three commonly used polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based MSI analysis techniques were comp...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Deschoolmeester V,Baay M,Wuyts W,Van Marck E,Pelckmans P,Lardon F,Vermorken JB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore the clinical value of serum IgM and IgG to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19. METHODS:105 COVID-19 patients were enrolled as the disease group. 197 non-COVID-19 patients served as the control group. Magnetic chemiluminescent immunoassay (MCLIA) was used to detect the IgM and IgG. RESULTS:The peak of positiv...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Wu LX,Wang H,Gou D,Fu G,Wang J,Guo BQ

更新日期：2020-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iron overload is a major complication in patients with hemoglobin H (Hb H) disease and causes damage of tissues. METHODS:We investigated 26 Hb H patients and 75 controls to evaluate their oxidative stress and antioxidant statuses. RESULTS:There were significantly increased levels of superoxide anion in leu...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Chiou SS,Tsao CJ,Tsai SM,Wu YR,Liao YM,Lin PC,Tsai LY

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive enzyme immunoassay (immune complex transfer enzyme immunoassay) for (anti-human T-cell leukemia virus type I) IgG (anti-HTLV-I IgG) in serum using recombinant gag p24(14-214) of HTLV-I is described. The recombinant gag p24(14-214) is soluble in the absence of detergents and allows the use of enzymes other ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kohno T,Hirota K,Sakoda I,Yamasaki M,Yokoo Y,Ishikawa E

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium is an important intracellular pathogen, particularly in AIDS patients. It also shows the second frequency among nontuberculous mycobacteria infections in Korea. Point mutations of domain V region of the 23S rRNA gene has been known to confer clarithromycin resistance to M. avium. In order to isolat...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Lee SH,Park YK,Kim CK,Kim HJ

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:CD4(+) cell count, the common HIV infection screening test, is costly and unable to differentiate HIV monoinfection from its concurrent infection with hepatitis B or C virus. We aimed to ascertain diagnostic value of serum adenosine deaminase (ADA) activity as a useful tool to differentiate HIV mono- and co-...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Abdi M,Rahbari R,Khatooni Z,Naseri N,Najafi A,Khodadadi I

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a specific serum anti-soluble T lymphocytes receptor for sheep erythrocytes (E) and SDS-PAGE, we detected radioactive bands of molecular weight 58,000 in immunoprecipitates of supernatant of heated human lymphocytes (SHL), in the supernatant of PHA stimulated lymphocyte cultures (SLC), normal human serum (NHS), ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Itano EN,Ono MA,Sumigawa M,Longo IM,Moura NC,Mendes NF

更新日期：1991-01-01 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:Adiponectin, an adipocyte-derived protein, is known to play a key role in the processes leading to atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease (CAD) through its anti-atherogenic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, and anti-apoptotic properties. In the current study, we have studied the association of two sing...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ghazouani L,Elmufti A,Baaziz I,Chaabane I,Ben Mansour H

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the effect of the synthetic glucocorticoid hormone dexamethasone (DXM) on HSV replication was studied in a DXM receptor-positive mouse neuroblastoma (NB) cell line. In cells treated with 10(-7) M DXM and then infected with HSV, there was a statistically significant 9-18-fold increase in the amount of vi...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Sawiris GP,Sydiskis RJ,Bashirelahi N

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microparticle-enhanced nephelometric immunoassay was developed for plasminogen quantitation in human plasma. It is based on the nephelometric measurement of the light scattered by microparticle clusters formed during a sandwich reaction between plasminogen, microparticle--anti-plasminogen conjugate, and the free ant...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Marchal E,Montagne P,Cuillière ML,Béné MC,Faure G

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two serum proteins of the complement cascade in the highest concentrations, C3 and C4, respond to various conditions in much the same manner as do other positive acute-phase proteins. A major difference is that they are relatively sluggish in response to cytokine drive, requiring several days rather than hours to ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Ritchie RF,Palomaki GE,Neveux LM,Navolotskaia O,Ledue TB,Craig WY

更新日期：2004-01-01 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:This study was performed to compare the clinical efficacies of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction with autologous ligament grafting at different time points. METHODS:Eighty-five patients with ACL were categorized into two groups: Group A (GA, n = 45), who underwent early-stage (≤3 weeks) surger...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Hu B,Gao F,Li C,Zhang B,An M,Lu M,Liu Y,Liu Y

更新日期：2020-08-26 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：BACKGROUND:Bone marrow (BM) study plays an important role as initial investigation specimen of lymphoma as well as staging lymphoma. This study aimed to investigate the utility of BM studies for classification of lymphoma and evaluate features of BM involvement by lymphoma over a period of 11 years. METHODS:A total of...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Kwoun WJ,Ahn JY,Park PW,Seo YH,Kim KH,Seo JY,Lee HT,Yoo KH

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine deaminase (ADA) exists as two isoenzymes, ADA(1) and ADA(2). It appears that the ADA(2) isoenzyme originates mainly from monocytes and macrophages. In tuberculous pleural effusions most of the ADA activity consists of ADA(2). The aim of this prospective study was to analyse ADA isoenzymes in the CSF of patie...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Schutte CM,Ungerer JP,du Plessis H,van der Meyden CH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors compare efficacy of two ELISA assays (one supplied by DIAMEDIX [Delta Biological s.r.l.], and the other by RADIM [RADIM I]) in detecting total anti-H. pylori antibodies, and of two further ELISA methods (one supplied by EUROSPITAL [Helori CTX IgG] and the other by RADIM [RADIM 2]) in identifying anti-CagA ...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Basso D,Stefani A,Brigato L,Navaglia F,Greco E,Zambon CF,Piva MG,Toma A,Di Mario F,Plebani M

更新日期：1999-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:MicroRNAs play a vital role in coronary artery disease. Abnormal expression of microRNAs has been found to be associated with the occurrence of CAD. METHODS:We identified significantly differentially expressed microRNAs in plasma between 40 patients with CAD and 10 controls with NCA using RNA sequencing. Th...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Zhong Z,Zhong W,Zhang Q,Zhang Q,Yu Z,Wu H

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Metabolic syndrome (MetS) prevalence in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is known to vary considerably across the world. This study aimed to determine the prevalence of MetS in RA patients from western Mexico and to analyze the interrelation of the MetS components with the clinical variables of RA. METHOD...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： García-Chagollán M,Hernández-Martínez SE,Rojas-Romero AE,Muñoz-Valle JF,Sigala-Arellano R,Cerpa-Cruz S,Morales-Núñez JJ,Lomelí-Nieto JA,Macedo Ojeda G,Hernández-Bello J

更新日期：2020-11-24 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical significance of cystatin C(CysC) in the newborns who show normal serum creatinine (Cr) and who are in an intensive care unit. METHODS:From July 2009 to May 2010, a total of 106 patients (53 male and 53 female newborns) in a neonatal intensive care unit at Ky...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Cho SY,Hahn WH,Lee HJ,Suh JT,Lee A,Cho BS,Suh JS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To determine the metabolic characteristics of patients with colon cancer (CC) and rectal cancer (RC) using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS)-based metabolomics. METHODS:In this study, serum samples were collected from 22 CC patients and 23 RC patients preoperatively and postoperatively and 45 hea...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Wu J,Wu M,Wu Q

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to explain the effects of microRNA-132 in renal cell carcinoma by regulating FOXM1 expression. METHODS:Thirty patients with renal cell carcinoma admitted to our hospital were enrolled, and their adjacent normal tissues and cancer tissues were taken. The expression of microRNA-132 w...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Yu Y,Lu W,Zhou X,Huang H,Shen S,Guo L

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for the detection of antitetanus antibodies was developed using aluminum-absorbed tetanus toxoid as the coating antigen. The assay was tested by measuring antitetanus antibody levels in serum obtained from subjects before and after immunization with the aluminum-absorbed te...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Thiele GM,Rogers J,Collins M,Yasuda N,Smith D,McDonald TL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We here describe an ion-exchange high-performance liquid chromatography technique with electrochemical detection for rapid quantification of glutathione, homocysteine, cysteinylglycine, and methionine. The analytical validation of the technique showed within-assay and between-assay coefficients of variation between 3....

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Houze P,Gamra S,Madelaine I,Bousquet B,Gourmel B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemoglobin F (HbF) is an effective inhibitor of HbS polymerization. Hydroxyurea (HU) is used to increase HbF synthesis and improve the clinical course of sickle cell disease (SCD) patients. We studied a series of laboratory parameters concerning HbF production and reticulocyte response, and compared data between two g...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Borba R,Lima CS,Grotto HZ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though recent reports have indicated a higher prevalence of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) in laboratory personnel than in other healthcare workers, these studies included only a limited number of laboratory personnel. METHODS:We have thus focused on the laboratory personnel, who had a high level of e...

journal_title：Journal of clinical laboratory analysis

authors： Moon HW,Kim H,Hur M,Yun YM,Lee A

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00