Sentences with phrase «as antibody markers»

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The company wanted to use it as a diagnostic marker for disease: If synthetic versions of antibodies could be tagged with aequorin in the lab, then whenever they matched up with an antigen (or surface protein) of a specific pathogen in blood or tissue, the sample would glow.

The «blood - brain barrier» is also at the centre of a potential puzzle raised by research such as today's research: how can the immune system have an effect in the brain when many inflammatory markers and antibodies can not penetrate this barrier?

As blood absorbs and moves through the paper membrane toward the ends of the chip, it hits the regions of antibodies, clumping or not, depending on what markers it carries.

A type of antifungal antibody, called ASCA, is widely used as a diagnostic marker since it is highly elevated in the blood of patients with several chronic diseases including Crohn's.

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For the detection of specific antigens, the following primary antibodies were used: mouse monoclonal anti-Tuj1 (Covance, Princeton, NJ, USA) as a neuronal marker, rabbit anti-L1 (kindly provided from Dr. Asou)[52] and rat monoclonal anti-L1 (Millipore, Billerica, MA, USA) as granule cell markers, rabbit anti-calbindin D28K (Millipore) as a Purkinje cell marker, and rabbit anti-glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP, DAKO, Denmark) as an astrocyte marker.

Good or bad, antibodies serve as disease markers.

Ideally, all can be marked using an antibody directed against the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA but parvalbumin, calbindin and calretinin are also commonly used as markers to narrow down the specific interneuron subtype.

Mass cytometers analyze cells labelled with antibodies (or other markers) conjugated to metals, rather than fluorochromes, in a mass spectroscopy - coupled flow cytometer, also known as a CyTOF (latest generation units are known as Helios).

SRM - MS analysis will permit us to directly use small - sized samples, such as the individual CSF samples, enable verification of marker candidates that currently do not have available antibodies (hence not amenable to conventional analyses such as ELISA or Western blots), and provide robust statistical analyses on individual candidate markers or combinations of them to determine which would make the best biomarker (s) for a particular disease condition.

Specific antibodies were used as markers to bind to the structure of motor neurons so that they could be easily viewed under high - power microscopes, and a computer program performed the three - dimensional measurement of the size and shape of a motor neuron's cell body.

We also had very high levels of anti-gliadin antibodies as well as multiple organ - specific markers showing which organs had already begun to be destroyed by the auto - immune reaction.

Pregnant women should also test other thyroid markers, such as T4 and T3, as well as TPO and TGB antibodies.

Many patients with chronic digestive problems who have had a stool or blood test performed will often have increased antibody markers as part of their test results, more so the blood based tests though than with the stool tests.

I can't tell you how often I have consulted with patients who were told they have autoimmune markers such as thyroid antibodies or ANA antibodies, and their doctor simply told them, «there's nothing to do for this, especially because you don't have any symptoms.

«My husband had to see a lab test with positive transglutaminase antibodies [regarded as a celiac marker] and stool IgA antibodies to gluten [a marker for gluten intolerance] to be convinced our child needed to be gluten - free.»

The results were significant: Levels of several different thyroid antibodies that serve as markers for Hashimoto's dropped between 40 and almost 60 percent!

Another critique of this study is that I wish the study had been done for at least 3 months, as that is the time needed to see the full effect on thyroid antibody markers!

More autoimmune marker papers: From Questioning Answers blog: «Autoantibodies by the way, refers to antibodies against self tissue as per what has been noted in various autoimmune conditions / diseases,» and Paul Whiteley cites to: Plasma Autoantibodies (Disease Associations) located at: http://www.patient.co.uk/doctor/plasma-autoantibodies-disease-associations.

Many endocrinologists consider measuring TSH levels to be the «gold standard,» but other markers are as important to be carefully analyzed, like Free T4, and Free T3 — the actual circulating thyroid hormones — or antibodies like TPO (thyroid peroxidase antibodies) to detect autoimmune thyroid disease.