Sentences with phrase «used blood markers»

The most often used blood markers are the creatine kinase - MB (CK - MB) fraction and the troponin levels.

Not exact matches

The Malaysian researchers were aware of how reheated oils used over and over in deep fat fryers create hypertension (high blood pressure) and other markers for cardiovascular disease.

During your time in Texas in the mid-1980s, you made one of your first big discoveries with positron emission tomography, which uses radioactive markers to monitor blood flow, among other functions.

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 team compared 85 women with PCOS and 89 controls on three occasions over six years, They were looking at blood levels of AMH — a hormone used as a marker of ovarian ageing.

To look for potential blood - based markers of delirium, a team led by senior investigators Towia Libermann, PhD and Edward Marcantonio, MD, SM, both of BIDMC, screened plasma from adults without dementia aged 70 and older undergoing major non-cardiac surgery using data from the Successful Aging after Elective Surgery Study.

In their study Dr. Würtz and colleagues used a technique called Mendelian randomization to assess whether increases in BMI in 12,664 mostly non-obese adolescents and young adults causally affects multiple cardiometabolic risk markers (82 molecules measured in their blood at a single time point).

Take, for example, prostate - specific antigen (PSA), which is a blood serum marker used to test men for prostate cancer.

«A new way to reduce surgery complications stemming from high blood sugar: Using a different marker to track a patient's glycemic levels could help improve outcomes after surgery for diabetic and non-diabetic patients alike.»

Treatment outcomes were evaluated using blood - based muscle damage markers and hormones, perceptual measures of muscle soreness, and counter-movement jump performance.

The researchers found that the plasmalemma vesicle - associated protein (PLVAP), often used as a marker for blood vessels, is expressed in lymph nodes not only in the blood vessels but also in the lymphatic vessels that transport tissue fluids.

More than 200 college - age study subjects were hooked up to equipment that tracked a set of psychophysiological markers, such as blood pressure and heart rate as well as other cardiovascular measures that can be used to differentiate a threat response — a state of negative arousal — from a challenge response — a state of positive arousal.

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.

Using the American Heart Association's Get - With - the - Guidelines quality improvement program, patients were reviewed for co-morbid conditions including kidney function, blood counts, and blood tests such as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a marker of heart failure.

The technique involves testing serum, the clear liquid that can be separated from clotted blood, for the increased presence of mannose, a sugar that is a marker for colitis, using Attenuated Total Reflectance Fourier Transform Infrared (ATR - FTIR) spectroscopy.

A type of antifungal antibody, called ASCA, is widely used as a diagnostic marker since it is highly elevated in the blood of patients with several chronic diseases including Crohn's.

Ideally, these scans are used when blood tests suggest a rise in a certain tumor marker and the patient is known to be responsive to radioactive iodine treatment.

The experiments used functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure increased blood flow throughout the brain, a marker of increased neural activity, during a wide range of activities, including finger - tapping, whistling, chewing, drawing, writing, reading, watching a movie and playing video games and memory games.

Using the Mayo Clinic Neuroimmunology Laboratory, which performs comprehensive neural autoantibody testing on blood and spinal fluid, the researchers were able to identify neural antibody markers that indicate a likely autoimmune cause.

But Thorsby was able to use blood samples from the islanders, collected since the 1970s, to examine their DNA for particular genetic markers.

«If a person's urine or blood has THS chemicals and biomarkers of liver damage, one can imagine identifying a number of these markers that can be arranged on, say, a strip or a chip which could be used in the physician's office to indicate liver damage allowing for early diagnosis and potential treatment,» Martins - Green said.

Scientific theme The theme for the July workshop is liquid biopsy: the potential of molecular markers in the blood or other bodily fluids to be used to detect disease state.

To measure how well a person's immune system is functioning, Dr. Maharaj uses a sophisticated blood test to examine innate and adaptive parts of the body's protection system which includes more than 100 cellular markers.

Positive clones were then differentiated using defined serum - free conditions outlined in Ng, et al [7], which overall gave rise to a CD45 + CD56 + CD117 − CD94 + population of cytotoxic NK cells [8] expressing the CD4 construct and other surface markers in a similar manner to peripheral blood NK cells.

These markers can be used to deconvolute the DNA found freely in the blood into tumor DNA and non-tumor DNA.»

The percent area covered by blood platelets over the luminal surface of untreated or treated ePTFE tubings was calculated by calculating the percent area covered by CD41 (platelets marker) using binary image processing on Zeiss LSM Image Examiner software.

The antibodies listed above in the immunocytochemistry section were also used on eye sections together with a cocktail of antibodies generated against human - specific markers (HSM) to identify human cells (the Oka blood group antigen, mouse TRA -1-85, 1 ∶ 10 (a kind gift from Peter Andrews, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK) together with mouse human nuclear antigen, 1 ∶ 1000, Millipore).

Here, we used a marker - free approach to computationally reconstruct the blood lineage tree in zebrafish and order cells along their differentiation trajectory, based on their global transcriptional differences.

The researchers used blood levels of cotinine, a byproduct of nicotine, as a marker for secondhand smoke exposure in more than 20,000 nonsmokers.

Of these, several have reported post-treatment reductions in total cholesterol 12, 53, triglyceride 12, 53 and increases in high density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.20 In studies using normotensive rats, three to six months of IER has been observed to lower blood pressure 16 - 19 and heart rate 16, 17, 19, with the magnitude of the change comparable to CER (40 % ER / day) rats.19 In accordance with these findings areimprovements in aortic endothelium - dependent and heart rate variability (a marker of sympatho - vagal balance) in IER - fed rats.72

The study used magnetic resonance metabolic profiling to analyze biochemical markers in the urine and blood of 141 patients: 61 with diagnosed celiac disease, 29 with positive blood tests but negative biopsies, and 51 healthy controls.

The Malaysian researchers were aware of how reheated oils used over and over in deep fat fryers create hypertension (high blood pressure) and other markers for cardiovascular disease.

Another difference between functional and conventional blood tests isn't just the ranges used, but also the markers ordered.

One common blood marker used to monitor oxidative stress is the formation of substances called F2 - isoprostanes, and studies have shown 10 - 15 % lower levels of this blood marker following EVOO intake.

In a patient with AKI, bloodwork evaluation will show elevated blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and creatinine values, which are the most commonly used markers for diagnosis of kidney dysfunction.

She believes remote monitoring devices used in human medicine to track markers like blood pressure or heart health will increasingly make their way to the pet world.

The fake blood on the gloves were made using red paint markers, the biohazard sign was created with black poster board that cost less than $ 1.00, and the Halloween biohazard bags that I turned into candy bags were purchased from Amazon.

The fake blood on the gloves were made using red paint markers, the biohazard sign was created with black poster board that cost less than $ 1.00,... READ MORE