How to measure renal function in clinical practice: Stage 3 chronic kidney disease is not a consequence of normal ageingBhandari suggests an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) <60 ml/min/1.73 m2 may be normal in patients older than 70,1. The study he cites as evidence showed a ...
The urinary clearance of inulin is generally regarded the gold standard to measure GFR [4]. As this method requires continuous intravenous infusion and multiple, timed urine collections, and inulin measurement is expensive and not routinely available, it has Acknowledgments Conflict of interest: A.B...
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Using synthetic BH3 peptides based on the BH3 domains of the BH3-only proteins, cells can be profiled to measure their distance from the apoptotic threshold106, 107 (Fig. 2). Highly primed cells, containing mitochondria that can be permeabilized with relatively low doses of BH3 peptides,...
IF is a quantitative measure that does not reflect the levels of evidence in cytopathology journals. IF should not be abandoned because it might encourage competition between cytopathology journals, but it should not dictate their contents. 展开 ...
FRET is commonly used to measure tiny distances between two fluorescent molecules. The researchers labeled the nanodisc membrane and the end of the intracellular tail of the protein with two different fluorophores, which allowed them to measure the distance between the protein tail and the cell memb...
What do these two tests measure? Explain why the use of oil is significant. Describe the four steps of risk assessment in toxicology. What symptoms would you expect to see in a human exposed to toxic levels of organophosphates? What is the difference bet...
This simple measure is not sufficient to capture the recurrent nature and duration of AE. This paper presents two methods to better describe the toxicity burden across the time: prevalence and Q-TWiST. Limitation of worst-grade method and advantages of prevalence and Q-TWiST in the analysis of...
The free drug concentration in the tissues may still be very useful, which is very difficult to measure. Its use for lead drug candidate selection may still be debatable. Several methods are available to determine free unbound drugs (fu) in the tissues, among which equilibrium dialysis is the...
Why is microsatellite instability used by physicians to measure problems with mismatch repair? Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and cocaine addiction. Talk about these diseases, compare and then contrast. Which of the following opioid agents is used in the treatment of acute ...