2Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 6100 Royalmount Avenue, Montreal, QC H4P 2R2, Canada. 3Human Health Therapeutics Research Centre, National Research Council Canada, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada. *email: Feng.Ni@cnrc‑nrc.gc...
Using IronScan™ a portable, point-of-care diagnostic system capable of quantitatively measuring ferritin in blood, we validated IronScan™ ferritin measurements using whole blood and serum with a lab-based, regulator-approved analytical device for measuring ferritin in venous serum. Capillary (...
In order to provide an overview of study quality, we used the Newcastle–Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of non-randomized studies in meta-analyses [21], which we adapted for biomarker studies in prospective cohorts (including nested case-control studies) and screening settings. Cat...
The resulting cell suspension was lysed by 3 passes through a French press homogenizer (Avestin, Ottawa, CA, USA). Cell lysate was clarified by centrifugation at 12,000 RCF for 30 min. The supernatant was recovered, incubated for 30 min at 37 °C with 280 RPM shaking, then aliquoted and...