Báo cáo y học: "Diagnostic value of anti-topoisomerase I antibodies in a large monocentric cohort" pdf

... past years, allowing examination of a large number of sera in a rapid approach at high sensitivity and at high specificity [7- 10]. anti-topo I: anti-topoisomerase I; DLCO: predicted diffusion capacity; ... identified an association between Figure 2 Detection of anti-topoisomerase I antibodies by line immunoblot assayDetection of anti-topoisomerase I antibodies...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... that the diagnosis of RA can ben- efit from testing for antibodies to citrulline-containing peptides such as antiperinuclear factors (APFs), antifillagrin antibodies, antikeratin antibodies (AKAs), ... objective of this study was to investigate the diagnostic accuracy of a novel and commercially available ELISA system for the detection of antibodies against a modi- fied ci...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP)1 and anti-CCP2 antibodies were detected using a commercially available ELISA, AhFibA using ELISA, and anti- PepA and anti-PepB antibodies using line immunoassay. Applying ... operating curve. Table 1 Sensitivities and specificities of AhFibA and anti-CCP2 assay in the two populations Cut-off Population 1 Population 2 Specificity Sensitivity Se...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:22

... Therapy Vol 5 No 5 Taylor Introduction Evaluation of disease activity and structural damage to joints in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is essential in both routine clinical management and clinical ... inflammation and joint damage indicate that clinical joint examination and CR are comparatively insen- sitive tools [3–5]. The most important technical require- ment for joint US is a high-q...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:23

... time when patients were seen in the hepatitis clinic. To verify the accuracy of clinical discriminant score in diagnosing cirrhosis, the clinical diagnosis was further assessed in 79 patients ... rate of fibrosis in hepatitis C virus patients with persistently normal alanine transaminase activity. Hepatology 1998; 27:868-872. Tables Table 1. Demographic and Clinical Profiles...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:20

... gastrointestinal melanoma explains why it largely eludes detection. Symptoms include mainly gastrointestinal bleeding, abdominal pain, anor- exia, nausea and vomiting, weight loss, progressive dys- plasia, ... potential to regress and disappear. In addition, melanoma by itself is a great mimicker of other neoplastic conditions and maycreateamajordiagnosticchallengewhenpresent- ing at an...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 00:22

... Zahurak ML, Carnot F, et al. Identification of hepatocarcino- ma-intestine-pancreas/pancreatitis- associated protein I as a biomarker for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by protein biochip ... Tarcan 1 1. İzmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital 1st Surgical Clinic 2. İzmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital 1st Biochemistry Clinic 3. Dokuz Eylül University Institute o...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:15

... These considerations include the characteristics of the patient population in individual studies, the instrumentation and interpretation of allergen-specific IgE skin and serology testing and variations ... own clinical practice [10]. Inter-physician variation in scoring and interpretation of skin tests is of particular concern in tests that are not strongly positive or definiti...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

... genetic mapping: linkage and association analysis (reviewed in [2]). Linkage analysis is based on inheritance of chromosomal fragments within families with affected and unaffected individuals. It allows ... susceptibility to arthritis in mice only in the presence of RIIIS/J alleles in the Cia32 locus, which also interacts with Cia31 and Cia26 [61]. Including interactions in the...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:22

... Pharmacy Practice and Pharmacy Administration, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. Authors’ contributions MS participated in the conception and design of ... ulcer indication on medical charts is correctly identified by a method. Specificity indicates the probability that a patient who does not have an indication on medical charts is not ident...

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