Doctors recommend routine blood work for their patients because blood can help them know their patients’ metabolism, organ function, illnesses, and the like. A routine blood test involves taking one’s blood at a Laboratory or at the doctor’s office. In a situation where there are no health...
Full Blood Count (FBC) Blood Test is a common blood test that measures the levels of different types of blood cells in your body.
Blood contains a variety of substances required for maintaining normal physiological functioning; this makes it a powerful tool for assessing the nutritional and health status of humans and animals. In agricultural animal studies, the association of serum and plasma metabolites with disease [18], meat...
How Does it All Work? It’s easy peasy. You just have to take the first step of booking a lab test or health checkup and we’ll handle the rest! Here’s a breakdown ● Book a full body checkup or blood tests at home, of your choice at your convenient time slot ...
The SII is a novel marker that combines peripheral blood lymphocyte, neutrophil, and platelet counts and is linked to inflammation [31]. Previous studies have highlighted SII's high prognostic value in cancer patients, as well as its significance in predicting POP in lung cancer patients [32, ...
important types of white blood cells of the immune system [51]. Normally, T-cells exhibit low metabolic activity and rely on fatty acid oxidation for energy. However, when T-cells are activated, they undergo rapid proliferation and differentiation into effector T-cells, requiring increased glucose...
Female sex workers who inject drugs (FSW-IDUs) are at risk of acquiring HIV, sexually transmitted infections (STI) and blood-borne infections through unprotected sex and sharing injection equipment. We conducted a 2×2 factorial randomized controlled trial to evaluate combination interventions to simul...
EQUC was performed as previously described [7,8]. Briefly, 100 µL of catheterized urine was grown under five conditions with BD BBL-prepared plated media: (1) blood agar plate (BAP) in 5% CO2for 48 h, (2) chocolate agar (CHOC) in 5% CO2for 48 h, (3) colistin and nalidixic...
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The incidence of multiple myeloma (MM), a type of blood cancer affecting monoclonal plasma cells, is rising. Although new drugs and therapies have improved patient outcomes, MM remains incurable. Recent studies have highlighted the crucial role of the chemokine network in MM’s pathological mechanis...