We also check in with how they are doing and
use lab markers.
Not exact matches
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.
The
lab tracked the differentiating process
using fluorescent cell imaging, which tested for the necessary
markers during each step.
The
lab has also shifted from testing genetic
markers known as short tandem repeats (STRs), which are standard in paternity testing, to recording single letter variants in the genetic code known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, which are rarely
used for this purpose.
Once they were able to isolate skeletal muscle cells
using the newly identified surface
markers, the research team matured those cells in the
lab to create dystrophin - producing muscle fibers.
She joined Dr. Yu's and Dr. Lichterfeld's
labs in August 2015 as a Postdoctoral Fellow to study specifically HIV reservoir (s) in different immune cell types
using HIV nucleotide sequence diversity as
markers.
In recent years, many
labs have dedicated enormous resources to identifying new molecular cancer
markers through «unbiased» direct profiling of human cancers
using DNA microarray approaches.
Since a similar
marker of DNA oxidative damage repair, 8 - OHDG, is measured in the urine on organic acids tests offered by certain
labs, could organic acids testing be
used to assess AD risk in our patients?
An elevation of lysozyme or calprotectin (biomarkers of inflammation, some
labs may
use one or the other
marker) is an indication of intestinal inflammation, and it may be an indication of inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis or Crohn's disease), but may be found in celiac patients as well.
Specialized
lab monitoring of key
markers is
used to assess progress throughout the treatment program.