Sentences with phrase «body as a biomarker»

The technique of using sodium ions in the body as a biomarker for imaging is very challenging because of the lower detectability of the sodium signal in biological tissue by currently available MRI scanners.

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The focus of those hopes is the liquid biopsy: a test that could detect and analyze a solid tumor from biomarkers in the bloodstream or other easily sampled body fluids, such as saliva.

Measurement of four biomarkers associated with a water - only diet suggested that the diet has the same physiological effects on the body as more extreme fasting.

The HOPE study looked at the effect of exercise on body weight, body fat, and inflammatory biomarkers in 121 women with joint pain from taking aromatase inhibitors (AI) as adjuvant therapy.

Co-researcher Dr Susan Francis, School of Physics, SPMIC added: «The team has a special interest in new types of functional MRI using novel targets like sodium as quantitative biomarkers of disease in the body, in particular in the kidney.

The team's next avenue of research will be focused on identifying a «biomarker» that can identify this distinct suppressive cell elsewhere in the body — for example, in blood or other samples — as a potential predictive clinical tool to determine when these cells are present in patients, which currently can not be done.

«We are proposing that the disease be defined in living people by evidence of brain pathology using biomarker studies, either brain imaging or body fluid examination, and that clinical symptoms should be regarded for what they are — a product or result of the disease, as opposed to the definition of the disease,» said lead author Dr. Clifford Jack, Jr. of the Mayo Clinic.

The Clinical Biomarkers Facility offers services for high - throughput and highly specific analyses of protein biomarker candidates in body fluids such as plasma, serum, cerebrospinal fluids etc. and cell and tissue lysates using molecular tools such as proximity extension and proximity ligation technologies (PEA and PLA) providing assays with high specificity and sensitivity in complex biological matrices.

This may be associated with sex hormones and their receptors, different body fat distribution and related biomarkers, such as higher adiponectin, which are discussed earlier.

Zhang J, Temme EH, Sasaki S, Kesteloot H. Under - and overreporting of energy intake using urinary cations as biomarkers: relation to body mass index.

Research has shown that as glutathione levels increase in your body, so does the function of natural killer (NK) cells, a biomarker for increased immune health.

Biomarkers, a landmark text written by two Tufts University professors, Dr. Irwin Rosenburg and Dr. Peter Evans, describes body composition as the most important indicator of health and aging.

«There have been cases saying, basically, that measuring change in biomarkers in the body is effectively a law of nature — you're just measuring changes that occur in a person, so this has not been touched sufficiently by the hand of a person to be qualified as an invention.

As previously described, 37 health risk - factor clustering was assessed by measuring 6 biomarkers: (1) overweight, (2) high blood pressure, (3) high total cholesterol, (4) low high - density lipoprotein cholesterol, (5) high glycated hemoglobin, and (6) low maximum oxygen consumption levels adjusted for body weight.

Batteries of biomarkers that measure allostatic load (also termed allostatic overload to highlight pathophysiology of the extreme)(38) tap into the major mediators of allostasis along with some key secondary outcomes, such as body mass index or waist — hip ratio and glycosylated hemoglobin (39), and provide a broad - based assessment of the dysregulation of these adaptive systems that has turned out to have predictive value in a variety of epidemiologic studies (40).

The index represents the sum of physiological dysregulations in the body of an individual in response to chronic stressful situation prior to onset of medical illnesses, and is measured by a combination of biomarkers of health such as adiposity, blood pressure and plasma glucose level.