Creatinine is a waste product your body makes when it uses your muscles for energy. Your kidneys help filter this waste. A blood or urine creatinine test measures how well your kidneys work by measuring their glomerular filtration rate (GFR). Abnormal creatinine test results can sometimes (but ...
Impact of Sample Collection Method for EGFR Mutation Testing: Results of Blood-Based and Tissue-Based cobas EGFR Mutation Testing in the Treatment of Locally Advanced or Metastatic NSCLC in the US Poulios N1, Hristova-Neeley D2, Gavaghan M2...
Linear Regression Results: Association Between Blood Biomarkers and Kidney Function According to Age eTable 9. Logistic Regression Results: ORs for Incident Impaired Kidney Function (eGFRcr-cys ≥60 mL/min/1.73 m2 at Baseline and eGFRcr-cys <60 mL/min/1.73 m2 at the 11-Year Follow-up) eTab...
Results Whole blood transcriptomes reveal diversity of COVID-19 patients not explained by disease severity To investigate the host immune response of COVID-19 patients in a systematic approach, whole blood transcriptomes were analyzed from 39 patients and 10 control donors recruited at the same hospit...
In the protein-protein interaction analysis for these untargeted elastic-net models, each cohort showed a largely distinct network of genes, with the number of nodes (most-connected gene) being 231 (EGFR) in the SHS, 133 (MAPK8) in the WHI, 293 (FN1) in the FHS, 732 (SRC) in the ...
EGFR is vital for normal epithelial repair so downregulation of this pathway could indicate impaired wound healing. Alternatively, we cannot rule out the possibility that EGFR signaling within the lung promotes fibrosis, but that the signature is lost in peripheral blood. Further investigation of the...
a Results presented as the mean ± SD. b Results presented as the N %. Abbreviations: eGFR, estimated glomerular filtration rate; CREA, Serum creatinine; LYM, Lymphocyte counts; PLT, Platelet count; NEU, Neutrophil counts; NLR, neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio; PLR, platelet to lymphocyte ratio...
There was little tolerance to wait longer for results, or for decreased test-conclusiveness. Developing accurate, low-risk tests for cancer diagnosis and management for blood biomarkers is therefore desirable to patients. Keywords: blood biomarker, liquid biopsy, precision oncology, patient preference,...
"Our results suggest that liquid biopsy can play a complementary role to tissue biopsy in the treatment of lung cancers. Due to its high specificity of 100%, meaning there were no false positives, liquid biopsy could be performed first and be used to guide treatment, especially when tissue bi...
From these results it is evident, that cord blood contains a hitherto undetected very early stem cell which can be expanded to large quantities. In addition, this cell can be induced to differentiate into MSCs and from there into osteoblasts, as already demonstrated inFIG. 11A. After complete ...