Sentences with phrase «looking for antibodies»

But with distemper, looking for antibodies does not work well.

(17) Other diagnostic testing involves looking for the antibodies called TTG (transglutaminase) in stool or blood samples.

Many researchers at NIH, universities and medical schools are looking for antibodies that act on a broad range of flu strains, with the goal of understanding how they attach to the viruses and then designing vaccines or other flu therapies that produce a similar effect.

HIV RNA testing - A form of HIV test that detects the presence of the actual virus rather than looking for antibodies to the virus.

Immunochemist Wayne Marasco of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues discovered an unchanging part of hemagglutinin that might provide a better target when they were looking for antibodies that neutralize the avian flu.

If you are experiencing uncomfortable GI symptoms, fatigue or anaemia you should visit your GP who will most likely refer you for a coeliac serology test, including an IgA test, looking for antibodies in the blood.

The way to measure this is to look for antibodies to the virus in a large number of people not known to have been infected.

Standard HIV tests, which look for antibodies to the virus using a so - called enzyme immunoassay, are one way to gauge the size of the epidemic.

Blood tests, which look for an antibody called rheumatoid factor (present in 80 % of RA patients) may be ordered.

The best place to look for antibodies is in the intestinal tract, not the blood.

The celiac disease blood tests look for antibodies that show your immune system's response to the gluten in your diet — that's why you need to be eating gluten when you're tested for celiac disease.

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This is called IgG testing and looks for antibodies and identifies sensitivities to foods, (such as gluten, casein, egg, corn and soy) and includes many other foods commonly eaten.

To get a celiac disease diagnosis, your doctor usually first orders blood tests that look for antibodies that your body produces when you eat gluten.

The tTg - IgA (Tissue Transglutaminase Antibodies) test looks for antibodies toward gluten.

The most common test is the SNAP test, performed by your veterinarian to look for antibodies to FIV.

Titer tests look for antibodies for parvovirus and distemper.

The first test looks for antibodies that have developed in response to the disease.

The second test looked for antibodies in the pet's blood directed against leptospira — evidence the organism was or had been present.

These tests, look for antibody to the virus (not the virus itself).

One month after a tick bite, a blood test can be performed to look for antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi

The blood test looks for antibodies that have developed in response to the disease.

This test looks for antibodies to FIV.

One looks for antibodies, which means the cat's immune system has been exposed to heartworms.

The most common test for the HIV virus and the AIDS condition is a test that looks for antibodies to the HIV virus in human blood.

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A blood test will look for the presence of antibodies which indicate coeliac disease.

Children complaining of headaches could be due to them having an active infection — this can be found by either looking for the virus itself in the oropharynx or in the antibodies which the body naturally creates to fight infection.

Antibody - based tests can also work for this purpose, but only after researchers know what proteins and modifications they're looking for.

We'll be able to look back in time and see, for instance, that this particular mom generated antibodies to this particular virus at the 17th week, and now her kid is autistic.»

By the time patients show up and get blood work done, the virus is often no longer detectable and the antibodies that could be picked up by a CDC lab may look like those for the more common dengue.

Polakiewicz explains that many experienced scientists already know how to approach commercial antibody validation — by looking for data.

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«But at the same time, we are also developing a therapeutic antibody targeting annexin A2, and we are looking for a small molecule that would inhibit Sema3D.»

Malamud's microfluidic machine uses four microscopic channels to simultaneously scan a sample: The first looks for human antibodies to the infectious agent, the second for an antigen on the surface of the pathogen, and the third and fourth amplify viral RNA or bacterial DNA.

Gary Glick of the University of Michigan and Jonathan Ellman of the University of California, Berkeley, looked for a decoy that would mimic DNA and bind to the troublesome antibodies.

Working with Boise State biology professor Cheryl Jorcyk, he is looking for ways to put antibodies on the surface of the liposome, allowing them to recognize and attack cancer cells that are circulating in the body.

Standard HIV tests look for the presence of antibodies rather than the virus.

Neuroscientists from London to Budapest to Seoul to Beijing to Sydney look to ImmunoStar for reliable antibodies for their research.

Looking for monoclonal primary antibodies to use with the secondary nanobody toolbox?

Then the B cells that make these antibodies can be used to make antibody - producing cell lines, called hybridomas, and the antibodies produced by these hybridomas can be screened in an assay Quigley has developed to look for the phenotype of blocking metastasis.

Looking for primary monoclonal antibodies to use with the secondary nanobody toolbox?

To reach that point, they first had to spend a decade standardizing, optimizing and scaling up their procedures, which involved using targeted antibodies to stain proteins and then looking for those markers inside healthy and cancerous tissue cells with high - resolution microscopy.

These blood labs can look for raised antibodies against parts of the brain, ruling out neurological autoimmune reactivity.

For this reason, I use Cyrex Lab in my clinic because they have a test that looks at the gliadin sub-fractions, which helps to minimize false negatives that can be found with the IgA and IgG anti-gliadin antibody testing.

Celiac disease can be definitively diagnosed using a two - step process: Doctors test the patient's blood for the presence of intestine - attacking antibodies activated by gluten, and, if those tests come back positive, they order a biopsy (or series of biopsies) to look for intestinal damage, any evidence of which confirms the diagnosis.

If you don't know whether or not a tick has bitten you, your doctor may look for evidence of antibodies against the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.

Also, we can look at TSI, immunoglubin, which is a marker for Graves» disease, which is also a thyroid condition; or TSH receptor antibodies for the hyper - TSH receptor antibodies for the hyper; TSI for the hyper; and then TPO and thyroglobulin antibodies for the hypo.

We would look at TPO, or Thyroid Peroxidase antibodies or anti thyroid globulin antibodies; we'll look for immune attack on the thyroid tissue.

I looked at her labs, and sure enough, her TSH was around a 5μIU / mL, and she was never tested for antibodies and never offered a thyroid ultrasound.

The genetic test for celiac is the one test you can undergo regardless of whether you're currently eating gluten or not — the test looks for the genetic predisposition to the condition, not for antibodies that indicate an active case of celiac disease.