Kristin Møller Gabrielsen of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim and colleagues report in the journal Environmental Research that they examined the liver, muscle and kidney tissues taken from seven polar bears killed by Inuit hunters in East Greenland in 2011 and analysed the effect of more than 50 contaminants
in plasma samples from Ursus maritimus, to see what effect organohalogen compounds could have on the bears» thyroid systems.
(D — I) Blood samples were taken at the indicated times, and radioactivity remaining
in the plasma samples (10 μl) was determined by liquid scintillation counting (n = 3 — 4 / group).
Notably, we studied the feasibility for enrichment of ctDNA by physical and in silico size selection
in plasma samples collected in 51 patients from multiple cancer types.
The Joslin researchers used global mass spectrometry to look for levels of approximately 2,400 metabolites (molecules produced during metabolism)
in plasma samples from the patients.
«Based on our findings, the next phase will be to measure exosomes and exomeres
in plasma samples to help predict organs that may be targeted for metastasis during tumor progression,» said Dr. Lyden.
Present
in all plasma samples, PFOS levels ranged from 776 to 118,000 parts per trillion.
«We used magnetic beads of 3 micrometers in diameter to pull down the exosomes
in plasma samples,» Zeng said.
The Stanford team found, however, that mitochondrial DNA levels were significantly elevated
in plasma samples from a small number of HD patients.
Not exact matches
Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present
in human liquid biopsy
samples, such as blood, serum,
plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.
The paper studied 20 discharges of
plasma chosen as a representative
sample of those created
in PPPL's National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) prior to its recent upgrade.
However, many studies have found the inconsistency of EGFR mutation status
in plasma DNA
samples as compared to tumor tissue DNA
samples.
They took sludge
samples gathered from around the country and measured the metal content using a mass spectrometer that can discern different elements as they are ionized
in a superhot
plasma.
The technology relies on a method Waterloo's Prof. Janusz Pawliszyn developed
in the 1990s called solid - phase microextraction (SPME), which uses a solid coating on a
sample probe to selectively extract chemical substances from blood, saliva, urine and even
plasma.
Malaria researcher Jonathan Kurtis of Brown University
in Providence, R.I., and colleagues examined
plasma samples and disease histories collected during a 2005 study of 453 Tanzanian youngsters.
By longitudinal analysis blood
samples retrieved from persons who have received the Ebola vaccine, the researchers could show that a group of cytokines measured
in plasma within seven days of the vaccine injection correlates with antibody responses developed six months later.
The resulting electric field tugged at ions
in the
plasma, triggering enough collisions that the
sample's surface layer began to circulate.
Blood
plasma concentrations of naloxone were measured nineteen times for each volunteer during each treatment session, with intense
sampling in the first 15 minutes after dosing.
The world's first known case of AIDS has been traced to a
sample of blood
plasma from a man who died
in the Democratic Republic of Congo
in 1959
Similar to high - tech centrifuges, the paperfuge was able to separate
plasma from blood
samples in less than 1.5 minutes, the team reports today
in Nature Biomedical Engineering.
«The signals are
sampled very quickly and stored on the computer so we can understand what was happening
in the
plasma.
In each blood
sample, the researchers separated the
plasma, the liquid part of the blood, from the blood cells.
Yet all blood
plasma samples drawn from 125 American alligators across 12 sites
in Florida and South Carolina contained at least six of the 15 perfluorinated alkyl acids (PFAAs) that were tracked
in the alligator study.
Using
samples from the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) study, the researchers found that people who carried the mutation responsible for this form of Alzheimer's also had altered levels of specific lipids
in their blood
plasma compared to the control group.
Both systems can simultaneously detect many targets such as cytokines, chemokines and inflammatory biomarkers
in a single
sample that can be serum,
plasma and tissue culture supernatants.
UNISI provides expertise
in the measurement of cell signalling proteins, such as cytokines, chemokines and inflammatory biomarkers
in multiple
samples (including serum,
plasma and tissue culture supernatants), using a multiplex suspension array system or a flow cytometric bead assay.
The difficulty
in measuring such a small increment
in chromosome 21 DNA concentration has recently been overcome with the use of massively parallel genomic sequencing.20 This technique can identify and quantify millions of DNA fragments
in biological
samples in a span of days.23 Three cohort studies have shown the feasibility of using the technique to identify fetuses with trisomy 21 by analysis of maternal
plasma DNA.24 25 26 The
sample numbers studied were small because, typically, only a few
samples could be analysed
in each sequencing run.
Samples matrixes suitable for metabolomics analyses include
in vitro: cell lysate and medium, and
in vivo:
Plasma, serum, urine, CSF, micro-dialysate and tissues
The group has over 10 years» experience with this methodology, with specific expertise
in cytokine / chemokine detection
in tissue culture supernatants and
plasma samples with panels containing up to 42 analytes.
The researchers detected ctDNA
in 19 (12 %) of the
plasma samples.
The platform can analyze multiple biomarkers quickly and efficiently, as demonstrated by the fact that a total of 458
plasma samples were analyzed
in triplicate, with 23 ELISA analyses per
sample - replicate,
in a single experiment.
Scientists at PNNL and the CDC previously conducted a global proteomics analysis of
plasma and serum
samples from the DASP and identified five candidates
in a
sample subset (Metz et al. 2008).
They identified more than 559 lipids that were significantly different (q < 0.05) between control and patient
samples, of which 55 were structurally identified by matching to entries
in a blood
plasma lipid AMT tag database.
Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School
in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to
sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen
in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool
plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.
The first manuscript entitled, Circulating Free Tumor - derived DNA (ctDNA) Determination of EGFR Mutation Status
in Real - World European and Japanese Patients with Advanced NSCLC: the ASSESS Study, used
samples from the large ASSESS study to evaluate EGFR mutation status by analyzing ctDNA from blood
plasma.
The results of the study demonstrated that analyzing ctDNA from
plasma is feasible for the identification of EGFR mutations with mutation status concordance
in 1,162 matched
samples of 89 % (sensitivity 46 %; specificity 97 %; positive predictive value [PPV] 78 %; negative PV 90 %).
The team used a high - tech sorter — an inductively coupled
plasma mass spectrometer — that can detect trace amounts of metals to precisely measure the amounts of lead, aluminum, magnesium, iron and other metals
in samples scraped from the pipes.
The SMA Foundation initially provided more than 120
plasma samples from SMA patients collected
in the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) clinical study for processing on Myriad RBM's DiscoveryMAP
The SMA Foundation initially provided more than 120
plasma samples from SMA patients collected
in the Biomarkers for SMA (BforSMA) clinical study for processing on Myriad RBM's DiscoveryMAP ® 250 + biomarker discovery platform.
They are looking for protein indicators of aggressive breast cancer
in the tissue and
plasma samples.
Plasma was diluted in RIPA buffer (50 mm Tris, pH 7.5, 150 mm NaCl, 5 mm EDTA, 0.1 % SDS, 0.1 % Triton X100, 0.5 % sodium deoxycholate) with protease inhibitors, LDS buffer (Life Technologies), and sample reducing agent (Life Technologies), so that 2 µL of plasma were run per
Plasma was diluted
in RIPA buffer (50 mm Tris, pH 7.5, 150 mm NaCl, 5 mm EDTA, 0.1 % SDS, 0.1 % Triton X100, 0.5 % sodium deoxycholate) with protease inhibitors, LDS buffer (Life Technologies), and
sample reducing agent (Life Technologies), so that 2 µL of
plasma were run per
plasma were run per lane.
Blood
samples taken
in one third of the volunteers (n = 1089) were tested for a variety of micronutrients, including hemoglobin, indicative of iron intake, soluble transferrin receptor, serum ferritin, retinol, vitamin C, beta - carotene, alpha - tocopherol, vitamin B6, cobalamin, holo - transcobalamin,
plasma folate, RCB folate and vitamin D.
Guinea pigs were dosed with 100 mg of an oxime aceteyltransferase reactivator, and tissue and
plasma samples were taken
in a geometric time series.
UNISI will provide expertise
in the measurement of cell signalling proteins, such as cytokines, chemokines and inflammatory biomarkers
in multiple
samples (including serum,
plasma and tissue culture supernatants), using a multiplex suspension array system or a Cytometric bead assay.
Our
sample galaxies are known to contain an excessive amount of interstellar dust against sputtering destruction
in hot
plasma filling the interstellar space of elliptical galaxies.
A
plasma viral load of > 100,000 copies / ml resulted
in successful amplification of all four amplicons for 86 % of the
samples, this value dropped to only 46 % for
samples with viral loads of < 20,000 copies / ml.
The 39
plasma samples corresponding to the individuals identified
in the prospective study were screened for the presence of antibodies to XMRV or other MLVs.
Radioactivity
in serial
plasma samples was determined by liquid scintillation counting and expressed relative to the number of counts
in the circulation 1 minute after injection.
On arrival, the
samples were centrifuged (1200 × g, 15 min, room temperature) to separate
plasma from buffy coat and red blood cells, and the
samples were frozen
in liquid nitrogen until they were analyzed.
Quality - control
samples were routinely frozen along with study
samples to monitor
plasma changes as a result of long - term storage and to monitor changes
in assay variability.
Aliquots of the 38
plasma samples collected during each 24 - h GCRC admission were pooled as described
in Subjects and Methods for measurement of average hourly
plasma ghrelin concentrations.