Sentences with phrase «detected by blood»

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, also sometimes referred to as just plain attention deficit disorder or ADD) does not show physical signs that can be detected by a blood or other lab test *.

After an HIV infection is initiated, it can take up to three months for antibodies to be detected by blood tests — this is called the «window period.»

Unlike a broken bone or cancer, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD, also sometimes referred to as just plain attention deficit disorder or ADD) does not show physical signs that can be detected by a blood or other lab test *.

Anaemia is easily detected by blood tests and treatment includes detecting and treating the cause as well as treating the anaemia itself.

Anemia is easily detected by blood tests and treatment includes detecting and treating the cause as well as treating the anemia itself.

Another internal parasite, heartworms, can only be detected by blood analysis.

IgE allergies can be detected by blood and / or skin testing.

Elevated levels of hCG can also be detected by a blood test that can detect pregnancy earlier than urine test — the sixth - eighth day after ovulation.

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fMRI (Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) «is a functional neuroimaging procedure using MRI technology that measures brain activity by detecting changes associated with blood flow,» according to Wikipedia.

The presence of the AIDS virus in an asymptormatic carrier of the disease may be indicated by a blood test designed to detect the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antibodies.

I might as well claim that your heart pumps blood because invisible unicorns squeeze the sides of the muscle with their invisible wings, but you have to believe by faith because there's no way to detect them.

All of the disorders can be detected through a simple blood test, and many can be treated relatively easily — by changing a baby's diet, for example, or by feeding a baby more frequently.

Checking the hCG levels in blood as performed by your doctor is a much more sensitive test than a home pregnancy test and can detect pregnancy as early as 11 days after fertilization.

The blood test aims at determining your pregnancy by detecting the HCG hormone in your blood.

They combined the blood test data with an app that asks questions designed to detect suicidal intentions, and predicted with 92 per cent accuracy who of a group of 108 men receiving psychiatric treatment would develop suicidal feelings over the following year — and with 71 per cent accuracy who of a group of 157 would be hospitalised by an attempt.

Existing methods, in which researchers detect the infection by looking at blood smears under a microscope, fall short.

By hindering LMPTP, the drug reawakens insulin receptors on the surface of cells — especially in the liver — which normally absorb excess sugar from the blood when they detect insulin.

During this period, antibodies against the virus, which are detected by diagnostic tests, are just beginning to appear in a person's blood.

We drew blood samples to measure hormone levels and detected shivering by special devices placed on the skin that sense muscle electrical activity.»

Dr. Aron and colleagues based their study's conclusions on a neuroimaging study using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanning that measures brain activity by detecting changes in blood flow.

«Advanced MRI can detect placental perfusion abnormalities in pregnancies complicated by fetal CHD: Powerful MRI technique shows blood flow complications before placenta damage is consolidated.»

Functional MRI is an imaging procedure that detects brain activity by measuring blood flow.

Geneticists have had some success in developing tests on maternal blood to detect fetal genes that are not also carried by the mother.

By attaching compounds to the eggshell membrane, researchers have created biosensors that can detect glucose, dopamine, or urea concentrations in human blood.

Rapid HIV testing is a screening test that swiftly detects the presence of HIV antibodies in a person's body by testing blood or oral fluids.

The known FPRs include two immune system receptors that detect chemicals given off by pathogens in the blood, helping immune cells track down and attack foreign bodies.

Liquid biopsies work by detecting pieces of DNA from tumors that are shed into the blood.

«This development has the potential to enable earlier detection of solid tumors through a simple blood draw by substantially improving our ability to detect very low quantities of circulating DNA derived from tumor cells,» says corresponding author Hunter Underhill, M.D., Ph.D., who initiated the research while in the lab of senior author Jay Shendure, M.D., Ph.D., a professor in genome sciences at the University of Washington.

The sensors detect how much infrared light is absorbed by hemoglobin in the blood and therefore report where brain activity is greatest (because that's where the blood goes).

Currently the most reliable way to detect infection is by detecting the bacteria in the blood but this requires a relatively large volume of blood.

The tumour has completely disappeared in the two patients after three to four treatments and can no longer be detected neither by PET / CT imaging nor by the tumour marker PSA (Prostate - specific antigen), whose blood level is often elevated in men with prostate cancer.

The new method, first developed for automated food safety testing and then adapted by Cornell scientists for a wider range of sample types, can detect the bacteria from environmental and clinical samples, including swabs, feces, milk and blood.

An analysis of diagnostic test results from the Prospective Multicenter Imaging Study for Evaluation of Chest Pain (PROMISE) trial — in which patients with stable chest pain were randomized to either anatomic or functional testing as an initial diagnostic strategy — showed that the presence and extent of coronary artery disease detected by CT angiography better predicted the risk for future cardiac events than did measures of exercise tolerance or restricted blood flow to the heart muscle.

He used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), a means of measuring brain activity by detecting blood flow changes inside the brain, to measure differences in the strengths of communications between brain regions.

A team of researchers led by Darragh Duffy from the Pasteur Institute and Yanick Crow from the Institut Imagine in Paris developed an ultrasensitive method to detect minute amounts of interferon - in human blood or cerebrospinal fluid.

Over the next few years, similar maternal blood tests could detect hundreds of diseases caused by chromosome abnormalities or mutations, including cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, Tay - Sachs disease, and genetic deafness and blindness.

The team uses an analogy to the primary care doctor conducting a check - up on a patient: A doctor may be able to detect early warning signs of an illness by running a quick exam, like bloodwork or blood pressure tests.

To detect food allergies, physicians typically use skin prick tests or blood tests that measure levels of allergen - specific IgE (sIgE), a protein made by the immune system.

French government officials delayed the approval of an American screening test for detecting HIV in blood to give a domestic company more time to develop a similar product, according to reports by the French daily, Liberation.

I am proposing a demanding criterion: that you be able to detect abnormalities in patients beforehand by such brain - imaging techniques as functional MRI [which measures blood flow in the brain], and then use imaging to see whether or not there is a change in those markers for the disease as the therapy progresses.

When some of our white blood cells detect viruses or other microbes that have invaded our bodies, they may alert other cells to the threat by spraying out some of their DNA.

Today, prostate cancer is primarily detected and monitored by testing for high concentrations of prostate - specific antigen (PSA) in blood samples.

Although microRNAs are present in blood at extremely low levels, the highly sensitive RNA sequencing techniques used by the Rockefeller team can detect them.

This revealed which parts of the brain were most active by detecting small increases in the blood flow to these brain areas.

Currently, acute infections are predominantly confirmed by detecting viral nucleic acid in blood and urine.

Traces of ethylene were detected by laser spectroscopy as part of the systemic inflammatory response to bacterial infection, both in isolated blood leukocytes as well as in a controlled experiments with healthy volunteers.

Published in Urology in April 2007 by Johns Hopkins University researcher Robert Getzenberg and his team, the paper reported that a novel protein in blood could be used as a sensitive test for detecting early prostate cancer.

As plaque will change the stiffness of the blood vessel and hence the pulse waveform, the novel sensor developed by the NUS Engineering team could be easily used to detect plaque before it accumulates to a size big enough to block or rupture the blood vessel.

Symptoms appear after the 20th week of pregnancy and are usually detected by routine monitoring of women's blood pressure and urine.

The most common type of hypertension detected (17.5 percent) was masked hypertension, which is normal blood pressure in the doctor's office, but high readings outside of the office; followed by sustained hypertension (14.5 percent); then, white coat hypertension (9.5 percent), which occurs when people have higher blood pressure readings at the doctor's office than outside the clinic setting.