With the support of industry partners, we obtained DBS test kits and started testing suitable patients. The DBS tests were sent for processing to an external laboratory in Glasgow.ResultsTo date we have tested 122 adult patients (M:F 2.4:1). The mean LAL levels were 0.56 nmol/punch/...
However, the dot blot test image produced by the mRNA extracted from the third group was darker. This means that the rate of transcription of mRNA for the enzyme is greatly increased during feeding after a fast. Generally, an increase in mRNA coding for a particular protein results in ...
It is concluded that fecal IRL is a promising new enzyme test with low diagnostic sensitivity (34%) but excellent diagnostic specificity (98%) in chronic pancreatitis and for diagnostic study of chronic diarrheal disorders. In contrast to fecal chymotrypsin, the test results are unaffected by ...
Statistical significance was determined by analysis of variance (ANOVA), independent-samples T test and non-parametric test. A p value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. 3. Results and discussion 3.1. Enrichment of PMFs and preparation of PLS The procedure of PMFs ...
Our results demonstrate that only post-heparin serum from the rat developed increasing lipoprotein lipase activity when increasing concentrations of heparin were added to the assay system. Heparin decreased activity in the other species. These results prompted us to test the effect of adding rat serum...
LIPG location has been shown to be functional on the outer face of the cellular membrane (Fig. 4a)18, thus we postulated the possibility that BCa cells are dependent on LIPG function to access extracellular lipids to support their growth needs. To test this notion, we profiled the media ...
(n = 3 or 4 independent experiments with, the significance of the results was assessed using a two-tailed Student’sttest).cViability of Hs746T and SNU-484 cells cultured in cysteine-deficient medium in the presence and absence of 2 μM darapladib for 18 h. The data are ...
—Increased hepatic lipase (HL) activity is associated with small, dense, low density lipoprotein (LDL) and low high density lipoprotein2 (HDL2) cholesterol (-C) levels. A polymorphism in the promoter region of the HL gene (LIPC) is associated with HDL-C levels. To test whether this asso...
Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) is a rate-limiting enzyme that hydrolyzes circulating triglyceride-rich lipoprotein such as very low density lipoproteins and chylomicrons. A decrease in LPL activity is associated with an increase in plasma triglycerides (TG) and decrease in high density lipoprotein (HDL) ch...
Comparative research of blood-gas biochemical analyzer in emergency biochemistry test Objective: To analyze statistically the results of potassium, sodium, chlorine tests by blood-gas biochemical analyzer and automatic biochemical analyzer, ... JI Tie-Mei - 《China Medical Equipment》 被引量: 0发表:...