Sentences with phrase «as diagnostic markers»

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.

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.

Although a relatively new stool test, fecal calprotectin is regularly used as indicator for inflammatory bowel disease IBD during treatment and as diagnostic marker.

Not exact matches

There are some signs that we are seeing through research that can be used as more early diagnostic markers of autism.

At one extreme, some certifiers have abandoned using SIDS as a cause - of - death explanation.7 At the other extreme, some certifiers will not classify a death as suffocation in the absence of a pathologic marker of asphyxia at autopsy (ie, pathologic findings diagnostic of oronasal occlusion or chest compression8), even with strong evidence from the scene investigation that suggests a probable accidental suffocation.

If this discovery sample can be validated through replication these markers may help as a diagnostic tool for psychiatrists treating mood disorders.

This protein also serves as a docking site for diagnostic markers and different drugs, such as Valium.

Discovery improves understanding of the cause of allergic asthma and may serve as an early diagnostic marker.

This effort, which will enhance deCODE's proprietary gene and drug target discovery work and may provide genetic markers for additional diagnostic development, will leverage Illumina's Sentrix ® HumanHap BeadChips; Infinium ™ assay and LIMS (laboratory information management system); as well as analysis and visualization tools from Illumina's BeadStudio software.

Gata5 a potential diagnostic marker for congenital heart disease The finding also suggests that gata5 could be a potential new diagnostic marker for congenital heart defects, as the researchers demonstrated that gata5 regulates the expression of a gene known as nkx2.5 which, when mutated in humans, causes human congenital heart defects and disease.

Floryne Buishand, 30, from the Netherlands, is a postdoctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute / NIH, Bethesda, USA, studies genomic changes associated with endocrine cancers with the ultimate goal of identifying novel diagnostic and prognostic markers, as well as novel therapeutic targets.

My short term goals for my postdoc are to identify novel diagnostic and prognostic markers, as well as novel therapeutic targets, leading to several high impact first authored publications.

The journal covers all aspects of surgical pathology, including classic diagnostic pathology, prognosis - related diagnosis (tumor stages, prognosis markers, such as MIB - percentage, hormone receptors, etc.), and therapy - related findings.

deCODE is continuing its research on both phenotypes to identify and analyze the roles of these genes, with the aim of finding novel diagnostic markers as well as drug targets that can be used to combat asthma and allergies by going to the underlying causes of both conditions.

AMACR gene identified by Kimmel Cancer Center researchers as a prevention and early diagnostic marker for prostate cancer.

Finally, we ask whether the mechanical differences between normal and cancer cells can be used as diagnostic or prognostic markers of cancer progression.

ID1 gene identified by Kimmel Cancer Center scientists as an early diagnostic marker for melanoma.

(PSA is secreted from other female body tissues, as well, and may be a possible diagnostic marker for breast disease, among other conditions, just as it is for prostate cancer in men.)

As markers flanking and successively closer to the disease gene are identified, the accuracy of a diagnostic linkage test is improved, but even relatively distant markers give some predictive information.