Monitoring Response to Therapy

Monitoring Response of a Few bZip Transcription Factors in Response to Osmotic Stress in Sunflower

Background: Sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) is one of the important vegetable oil supplies in the world and in Iran, as well. It is classified as a drought semi-tolerant crop; however, its yield is adversely affected by drought stress. Understanding the initial events in sensing stress and the related physiologic and biochemical events thereafter, is crucial in designing droug...

An assay for monitoring response to therapy in cancer patients.

Immunosuppression is characteristic of patients with advanced malignant neoplasms. However, none of the simple assays for immunocompetence have been found to provide results which correlate with the patients' responses to therapy. The data reported here indicate that this may be because there are artifacts in data from earlier studies which have obscured such a correlation. A simple assay which...

Monitoring Response to Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy for Breast Cancer

Lc-ms Strategies in Monitoring the Response to Different Therapy

Therapeutic drug monitoring is an esential tool for a positive management therapy. The prefered laboratory strategy is immunoassay. Due to the cross-reactivity to other components, alternative approaches, such as LC-MS, are continously under investigation. The paper described briefly the main aspects regarding LC-MS apparatus and technique and recent applications on therapeutic drug monitoring,...

Evaluation and monitoring of response to therapy in multiple myeloma.

haematologica/the hematology journal | 2005; 90(10) | 1305 | The treatment of myeloma has undergone major changes in the last decade. The most significant advances in therapy include the use of tandem (double) autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) to improve overall survival in patients not achieving complete response (CR) or very good partial response with the first ASCT, and new active ...