Protein C activity, a novel prognostic marker, was evaluated in patients with gastric dilatation and volvulus relation to mortality severity of the disease. Data on mortality, duration clinical signs, degree torsion, necrosis, splenectomy occurrence disseminated intravascular coagulopathy were recorded. Blood samples obtained at selected time periods: T0 = no longer than 30 min before surgery; ...

The survey was carried out to determine the molecular detection of Hepatitis B virus markers among blood donors between age 18-65 years from National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) centre in Kaduna, Nigeria. samples were screened for (HBV) using Diagnostic kit HBV infection marker whole blood. serological determined polymerase chain reaction and confirmed. socio-demographic factors associated...

conclusions it was demonstrated that the presence of del6q21 in b-cll patients indicates poor prognosis and on the contrary, presence of del17p13 points at the good prognostic value of the disease. results deletion of 17p13 was found in 11 (16.6%) and deletion 6q21 was present in 5 (7.5%). statistical analyses were performed to investigate the correlation of these molecular-cytogenetic findings...

background spirulina is one of the most profitable known microalgae in the world, which is used as food and superfood. in the other hand, spirulina is a useful source of healthy components. it seems that the spirulina is transformable so that the introduction of a selectable marker is needed. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine a suitable selection marker for spirulina platens...

introduction: several studies have evaluated the association of admission blood glucose levels and short and long term mortality after myocardial infarction and have had different results. the aim of this study was evaluation of association between admission blood glucose levels and in-hospital and one year mortality in non-diabetic patients with ami. methods: in this study, demographic, clinic...

The clinical relevance of circulating tumor cell clusters (CTC-clusters) in breast cancer (BC) has been mostly studied using the CellSearch®, a marker-dependent method detecting only epithelial-enriched clusters. However, due to epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition, resorting marker-independent approaches can improve CTC-cluster detection. Blood samples collected from healthy donors and spiked-...

PURPOSE In initial studies that included colorectal cancer patients undergoing diagnostic colonoscopy, we had identified a serum marker combination able to detect colorectal cancer with similar diagnostic performance as fecal immunochemical test (FIT). In this study, we aimed to validate the results in participants of a large colorectal cancer screening study conducted in the average-risk, asym...

Methods Over 350 subjects were recruited from the Pediatric Test Center of the Montreal Children’s Hospital and a questionnaire was administered to determine presence of a history of atopic diseases. 3-5cc of anti-coagulated blood was taken and peripheral blood mononuclear cells were cultured for up to 24h with IL-4 (13.5ng/ml) and/ or LPS (up to 5μg/ml). We conducted flow cytometric analysis f...

Increasingly we are monitoring the distribution of oxygen through the microcirculation using optical techniques such as optical reflectance spectroscopy (ORS) and near-infrared spectroscopy. Mean blood oxygen saturation (S(mb)O(2)) and tissue oxygenation index measured by these two techniques, respectively, evoke a concept of the measurement of oxygen delivery to tissue. This study aims to esta...