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Bhanu P. Singh Banani Banerjee Puspanita Naik Jordan N. Fink Viswanath P. Kurup 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2006,21(2):20-27
The ubiquitous fungus Aspergillus fumigatus causes allergic rhinitis, asthma, sinusitis and allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis.
A number of major allergens from A. fumigatus are purified, but their structure-function role in the pathogenesis of disease
is not known. Such information is essential for devising alternative therapy of fungal allergic diseases. In the present study,
N-terminal and C-terminal deletion mutants ofAsp f 3 were constructed and their immunopathological responses studied in a mice model of allergy. Three mutants viz,Asp f 3 (aa 33–168), (aa 1–142), and (aa 23–142) were made by deleting certain amino acids from epitopic regions of full lengthAsp f 3, a major allergen of A. furnigatus. TheAsp f 3 and three mutated proteins were expressed in pET vector. The C-terminal deletion mutantAsp f 3 (aa 1–142) induced elevated IFN-γ but low levels of IL-4 by spleen cells. This mutant also showed significant downregulation
of peripheral blood eosinophils and lung inflammation in immunized mice. The N-terminal deletion mutantAsp f 3 (aa 33–168) also exhibited an immuno-suppressive effect in terms of IgE production and induction of Th2 cytokine. The results
indicate thatrAsp f 3 and its deletion mutants induced distinct immune-inflammatory responses in mice on challenge with these proteins. The non-IgE
binding deletion mutants ofAsp f 3 (aa 1–142 and aa 33–168) could deviate Th2 immune response with a concomitant reduction in airway inflammation and infiltration
of inflammatory cells. 相似文献
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Mahajan RS Veerpathran A Dakshinamoorthy G Sharma RD Goswami K Reddy MV 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2010,25(4):362-366
WHO-Tropical Disease Research scheme highlighted the need for development of new anti-filarial drugs. Certain antibiotics
have recently been found effective against Wolbachia, co-existing symbiotically with filarial parasites. Inflammatory response
entails oxidative mechanism to educe direct anti-microbial effect. In the present study microfilariae were maintained in vitro
in medium supplemented with varying concentrations of tetracycline, doxycycline (20–100 μg/ml) or ciprofloxacin (50–250 μg/ml)
separately to find out any involvement of oxidative mechanism in the anti-filarial effect of these antibiotics. Loss of motility
of the microfilariae was measured after 48 h and correlated with the levels of MDA, nitric oxide and protein-carbonylation.
Significant loss of microfilarial motility was recorded with increasing concentration of tetracycline and doxycycline but
with ciprofloxacin the effect was not marked. Agents with high antifilarial activity revealed significant association with
oxidative parameters in a dose dependent manner. The result suggests that oxidative effect might be exploited to design novel
antifilarial drug candidate. 相似文献
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Gacche RN Shaikh RU Chapole SM Jadhav AD Jadhav SG 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(3):303-308
The study was designed to evaluate the antioxidant activity and effect of Cymbopogon martinii (Roxb.) Wats. (Poaceae) leaves on the activity of monoamine oxidase and kinetics of enzyme inhibition. Ethanol extract of
C. martinii and rat brain mitochondrial monoamine oxidase preparation ware used to study the kinetics of enzyme inhibition using double
reciprocal Lineweaver–Burk plot. The DPPH was used as a source of free radical to evaluate antioxidant potential. It is observed
that, the ethanolic extract of C. martinii inhibits the monoamine oxidase activity with competitive mode of inhibition. The V
max (0.01 mM/min) remained constant while, K
m varied from 21.00 ± 1.1, 43.33 ± 1.5 and 83.33 ± 1.4 mM for 100–500 μg/ml concentration of C. martinii. The K
i values were calculated to be 90.00 ± 0.87, 75.00 ± 0.69, 68.18 ± 0.68 μg for 100–500 μg/ml concentration of C. martini. It also shows a significant DPPH (1,1-diphenyl-2-picryl hydrazine) radical scavenging (IC50 = 0.34 ± 0.05 mg/ml) and reducing activity (IC50 = 0.70 ± 0.22 mg/ml). The C. martini can be considered as a possible source of MAO inhibitor used in the treatment of depression and other neurological disorders. 相似文献
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Disha Banerjee Debarati Ghosh Anindita Chatterjee Swagata Sinha Krishnadas Nandagopal 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2012,27(1):46-51
GARS–AIRS–GART is crucial in studies of Down syndrome (DS)-related mental retardation due to its chromosomal location (21q22.1), involvement
in de novo purine biosynthesis and over-expression in fetal DS brain postmortem samples. GARS–AIRS–GART regions important for structure–function were screened for mutations that might alter protein levels in DS patients. Mutation
screening relied on multiplex/singleplex PCR-based amplification of genomic targets followed by amplicon size determination/fingerprinting.
Serum protein samples were resolved by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotted with a GARS–AIRS–GART monoclonal antibody. No variation
in amplicon size/fingerprints was observed in regions encoding the ATP-binding, active site residues of GARS, the structurally
important glycine-rich loops of AIRS, substrate-binding, flexible and folate-binding loops of GART or the poly-adenylation
signal sequences. The de novo occurrence or inheritance of large insertion/deletion/rearrangement-type mutations is therefore
excluded. Immunoblots show presence of GARS–AIRS–GART protein in all patient samples, with no change in expression levels
with respect to either sex or developmental age. 相似文献
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Unstable angina is a critical condition of heart resulting from narrowing of vessels supplying blood to heart. Ischemia of
the myocardium leads to oxidative stress and severe tissue damage. The objective of the present study was to determine the
effect of l-arginine administration on the oxidant–antioxidant homeostasis which otherwise gets imbalanced in patients with cardiovascular
diseases. The results obtained, show improvement in the oxidant–antioxidant levels of the subjects upon incorporation of l-arginine. Our findings suggest that supplementation of l-arginine along with regular anti-anginal therapy may be beneficial to the patients of unstable angina. 相似文献
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BackgroundGardnerella vaginalis is a bacterial vaginosis (BV)-associated vaginal bacterium that produces the toxin vaginolysin (VLY). VLY is a pore-forming toxin that is suggested to be the main virulence factor of G. vaginalis. The high recurrence rate of BV and the emergence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial species demonstrate the need for the development of recombinant antibodies as novel therapeutic agents for disease treatment. Single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) generated against VLY exhibited reduced efficacy to neutralize VLY activity compared to the respective full-length antibodies. To improve the properties of scFvs, monospecific dimeric scFvs were generated by the genetic fusion of two anti-VLY scFv molecules connected by an alpha-helix-forming peptide linker.ResultsN-terminal hexahistidine-tagged dimeric scFvs were constructed and produced in Escherichia coli and purified using metal chelate affinity chromatography. Inhibition of VLY-mediated human erythrocyte lysis by dimeric and monomeric scFvs was detected by in vitro hemolytic assay. The circulating half-life of purified scFvs in the blood plasma of mice was determined by ELISA. Dimeric anti-VLY scFvs showed higher neutralizing potency and extended circulating half-life than parental monomeric scFv.ConclusionsThe protein obtained by the genetic fusion of two anti-VLY scFvs into a dimeric molecule exhibited improved properties in comparison with monomeric scFv. This new recombinant antibody might implement new possibilities for the prophylaxis and treatment of the diseases caused by the bacteria G. vaginalis. 相似文献
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Suhail Rasool Madhuri Behari Vinay Goyal Mohd Irshad Bansi Lal Jailkhani 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2013,28(2):124-135
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease that results from antibody mediated damage of Acetylcholine receptor (AChR) at the neuromuscular junction. The autoimmune character of MG and pathogenic role of AChR antibodies have been established by several workers i.e., the demonstration of anti-AChR antibodies in about 90 % of MG patients. It has been demonstrated that patients with MG also have antibodies against a second protein named presynaptic membrane receptor (PsmR), which is identified by utilizing β-Bgtx, a ligand which binds to PsmR. Using β-Bgtx Sepharose 4B affinity matrix, the PsmR was purified from different regions of human cadaver brain by affinity chromatography. Purified receptor was characterized both by biochemical and immunological procedures. PsmR purified from different regions of the brain shows a specific activity of 0.37 ± 0.01, 0.39 ± 0.02 and 0.43 ± 0.005 nM/ μg of protein in Parietal lobe, Occipital lobe and Frontal lobe respectively. The affinity purified PsmR from the brain of 87 and 68 kd (parietal lobe, occipital lobe and frontal lobe) shows immunoreactivity with myasthenic sera. These findings suggest that PsmR from brain is another antigen against which autoantibodies are developed in Myasthenia gravis patients. Upon treatment with various enzymes we concluded that PsmR from brain is a glycoprotein in which the immunoreactivity resides in the carbohydrate as well as the peptide epitopes. In conclusion the PsmR is another antigen against which autoantibodies are formed in different regions of brain. These can be used as a diagnostic tool for detecting antibodies in the sera or cerebrospinal fluid of MG patients. 相似文献
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K. T. Augusti Regi Jose G. R. Sajitha Paul Augustine 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2012,27(1):6-20
This review article on the beneficial uses of Allium antioxidants tries to give some answers to the recent doubts raised by
Singh et al. (Ind J Clin Biochem 25(3):225–243, 2010) against the claim of some researchers that Antioxidants (AOs) are miraculous molecules. Many people still believe that vitamins
like A, C and E are the only true AOs that play important role in the corrections of metabolic derangements in life style
diseases and hence all their faults are attributed to the failures of AOs as a class. This is quite unfair as there are many
other natural AOs that do equal or even better AO action than the vitamins. Such is the case with the Allium S-alkyl sulfoxide
aminoacids and their breakdown products viz, the various poly sulfides and their oxides e.g. allicin and ajoene type compounds
which trap electrons mainly. It is true that antioxidant vitamins and β-carotene a precursor of Vitamin A bring about problems
as prooxidant or as agents that block some metabolic pathways and gene expression. Again the argument that AOs cannot improve
the level of antioxidant enzymes like SOD, catalase and glutathione Px is also not universal. Actually allium AOs can even
spare the use of antioxidant vitamins in the body and enhance the action of antioxidant enzymes and supply of ATP and other
nutrients to the tissues as the former are good vasodialators and promoters of membrane permeability. The use of AOs should
be selective and moderate. Allium AOs satisfy the role of ideal AOs based on many of their invivo and invitro actions reported
by the author and others. Their metabolits can regenerate them and recycle them for a sufficient time in the body. They have
non antioxidant effects also such as antiplatelet, fibrinolytic, antiinflammatory, immunomodulatory, antiageing actions etc.
Plant derived AOs may be more beneficial and better tolerated in their partially purified forms rather than in their absolutely
purified forms as the accompanying principles have some protective and regulatory effects in general. This and other aspects
of allium AOs are discussed in the paper. 相似文献
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Fructose developed a pinkish orange chromogen on treatment with o-cresol: 70% sulphuric acid at 32°C for 15 minutes with a
λ max of 500nm. Fructose was 185 times more chromogenic than glucose. Total carbohydrate and fructose values in protein-free
filtrate of normal serum samples were in the range, 55.4–86.3 mg/dl and 1.55–3.29 mg/dl, respectively. In diabetes, the observed
values were 197–354 mg/dl and 2.91–6.81 mg/dl, respectively. 相似文献
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M. A. Qadar Pasha R. B. Ram M. D. Gupta 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2000,15(1):29-35
Determination of ammonia level in blood is important, especially in the diagnosis of hepatic disorders. An indigenously purified
enzyme was used in the standardisation of the assay. The assay is a two reagent system, requires five minutes for completion
and can be performed at temperature between 25–27°C. Performance of the assay was assessed by linearity, imprecision, functional
sensitivity and interference studies. Lyophilised reagent I and reagent II were found stable for at least one year. The plasma
level of ammonia for the controls was 13.7±7.3 μMol/L, whereas for subjects of hepatic disorders, it was 69.1±32.4 μMol/L
(P<0.001). The functional sensitivity was between 2–1000 μMol/L. Within-run coefficient of variation was between 1.1–2.0%
and between-run coefficient of variation was between 1.9–3.7%. The mean recovery after dilution was 99.6%. The present method
can estimate ammonia up to 1000 μMol/L without dilution of sample. Assay time of five minute may be shortened to one minute.
This method is suited for routine clinical use in treatment of hepatic disorders. 相似文献
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Manish K. Singh Shailendra Dwivedi Suraj S. Yadav Praveen Sharma Sanjay Khattri 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2014,29(1):29-37
Arsenic a metalloid and environmental contaminated has been found to be associated with public health problems in the affected areas. It is naturally occurred in groundwater and its accumulation in plant and animals leads to toxicity in several tissues most notably hepatic organ. Arsenic exposures (3 mg/kg body weight/day for 30 days) in mice exhibited increased arsenic and Zn levels in hepatocytes associated with enhanced oxidative stress in hepatocytes while there were no significantly changes were observed in Cu level. An increase in the lipid peroxidation and decrease in the levels of reduced glutathione and activity of superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase were observed in arsenic treated mice as compared to controls. Arsenic exposure in mice also caused a significant change in serum biomarkers in the SGOT, SGPT and creatinine as compared to the controls. There were no significant changes in the serum levels of total protein in these mice. Co-administration of arsenic and fruit extract of amla (500 mg/kg body weight/day for 30 days) caused a significant reduction of arsenic transference associated with significantly decreases hepatic arsenic levels and balanced the antioxidant enzyme and levels of serum hepatic enzymes like SGOT and SGPT. The results of the present study clearly demonstrate the antioxidant property of amla that could be responsible for its protective efficacy in arsenic induced hepatic toxicity. 相似文献
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Michael B. Adinortey Ben A. Gyan Jonathan P. Adjimani Philomena E. Nyarko Charity Sarpong Francis Y. Tsikata Alexander K. Nyarko 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(4):366-372
There is scanty information on the role of genetic factors, especially those relating to haptoglobin (Hp) phenotypes in the
expression of complications among diabetes mellitus patients in Ghana. In this study, we investigated whether there is any
association between Hp phenotypes and diabetic complications and to determine if association of the Hp phenotypes with diabetic
complications in Ghanaian diabetics differ from those in Caucasians. A total of 398 participants were randomly recruited into
the study. These comprised diabetic patients numbering 290 attending a diabetes Clinic in Ghana and 108 non-diabetic controls
from the same community. Analyses of the results indicate that most of the diabetics with complications were of the Hp 2–2
(35%) and Hp 2–1 (23.9%) phenotypes. Fewer diabetics were found to be of the Hp 2–1 M phenotype. The controls were mostly
of Hp 1–1 and Hp 2–1 M phenotypes. The odds ratio of having complications in a diabetic with an Hp 2–2 phenotype was 18.27
times greater than that for Hp 0–0. Hp 2–2 phenotype with its poor antioxidant activity may therefore be a useful predictor
for the propensity of an individual to develop diabetes complications. 相似文献
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Mascha Verma Rashmi Khadapkar Priyadarshi Soumyaranjan Sahu Bibhu Ranjan Das 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2006,21(2):90-94
An increase in the communication within the healthcare services, both nationally and internationally, has strengthened the
need for harmonization of measurements and reference intervals in laboratory medicine. In the present report, the calculated
reference interval for serum creatinine (sCr) levels of healthy normal individuals (n=1121) in different sex and age groups
are compared with the established interval. The calculated reference interval for sCr level was 0.4–1.3 mg/dL and 0.6 to 1.3
mg/dL in the age groups of 21–40 and 41–60 years respectively. The difference between the mean sCr values in total males and
total females (age range 21–60 years) was statistically significant (p<0.0001); When male and female subjects were analyzed
age-group wise, the data showed a significant difference in mean sCr values (p<0.0001) in three age groups (21–30, 31–40 and
41–50 years) however, in older age group (51–60 years), the difference was non-significant (p=0.07). The reference ranges
were 0.7–1.3 and 0.4–1.0 mg/dL for males and females respectively where the lower limit was 0.1–0.2 units less than that of
standard limits. An increase in the mean value of sCr was observed particularly in females with an increase in age. Hence
it is of interest to validate an age specific reference ranges for sCr in our population. 相似文献
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Induction of diabetes by Streptozotocin in rats 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
A. Akbarzadeh D. Norouzian M. R. Mehrabi Sh. Jamshidi A. Farhangi A. Allah Verdi S. M. A. Mofidian B. Lame Rad 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2007,22(2):60-64
The objective of this study is to induce experimental diabetes mellitus by Streptozotocin in normal adult Wistar rats via
comparison of changes in body weight, consumption of food and water, volume of urine and levels of glucose, insulin and C-peptide
in serum, between normal and diabetic rats. Intra-venous injection of 60mg/kg dose of Streptozotocin in adult wistar rats,
makes pancreas swell and at last causes degeneration in Langerhans islet beta cells and induces experimental diabetes mellitus
in the 2–4 days. Induction of experimental diabetes mellitus is indeed the first step in the plan of purification of pancreatic
Langerhans islet cells of normal rats for transplanting under the testis subcutaneous of experimentally induced diabetic rats.
Streptozotocin induces one type of diabetes which is similar to diabetes mellitus with non-ketosis hyperglycemia in some animal
species. For induction of experimental diabetes in male adult rats weighted 250–300 grams (75–90 days), 60mg/kg of Streptozotocin
was injected intravenously. Three days after degeneration of beta cells, diabetes was induced in all animals. The diabetic
and normal animals were kept in the metabolic cages separately and their body weight, consumption of food and water, urine
volume, the levels of serum glucose, insulin and C-peptide quantities in all animals were measured and then these quantities
were compared. For a microscopic study of degeneration of Langerhans islet beta cells of diabetic rats, sampling from pancreas
tissue of diabetic and normal rats, staining and comparison between them, were done. Induction of diabetes with Streptozotocin
decreases Nicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide (NAD) in pancreas islet beta cells and causes histopathological effects in beta
cells which probably intermediates induction of diabetes. In this study, we used Streptozotocin for our experiments in induction
of experimental diabetes mellitus. After Induction of diabetes, consumption of food and water, volume of urine and glucose
increased in the diabetic animals in comparison with normal animals, but the weight of body and the volume of insulin and
C-peptide decreased in the diabetic animals. Sampling and staining of pancreas tissue of diabetic and normal rats showed that
the Langerhans islet beta cells of diabetic rats have been clearly degenerated. In three days, Streptozotocin makes pancreas
swell and at last causes degeneration in Langerhans islet beta cells and induces experimental diabetes. It also changes normal
metabolism in diabetic rats in comparison with normal rats. Consumption of water and food, volume of urine, serum glucose
increases in diabetic animals in comparison with normal rats but the levels of serum insulin, C-peptide and body weight decreases. 相似文献
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Sowjanya B Sreenivasulu U Naidu JN Sivaranjani N 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(2):214-216
End stage renal disease (ESRD) represents a clinical condition in which there is an irreversible loss of endogenous renal
function. Both structural and functional abnormalities of the kidney are associated with increased morbidity, mortality. Bardet–Biedel
syndrome (BBS) is one of the rare genetic disorders with prevalence of 1 in 1, 40,000–1 in 1,60,000 worldwide. ESRD in BBS
patients is the final stage of the disease, increasing mortality in youth. 相似文献
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T. Raghava Rao D. N. Rao B. Veerendra Kumar P. Aparanji K. Srinivas Rao R. Athota 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2003,18(1):29-34
Sensitization to ingested foods is a known fact and several food allergens have been characterized. It has been observed in
our survey that the people complained of allergic symptoms after consumption of the vegetableVigna sinensis. In this study, the experiments were carried to investigate the IgE antibody response against the green seed extract of vigna
sinensis in mice and found that the primary, secondary and tertiary immunization with or without adjuvant by different doses
induced a significant production of IgE antibodies. The presence of IgE antibodies in the mice sera were determined by passive
cutaneous anaphylaxis and enzyme linked immunosorbent assay. It was also confirmed that these allergens were found to be heat
resistant and shared a common epitope(s) with the other legume foods, as evidenced by the cross-reactive studies. 相似文献
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B. C. Harinath Satish Kumar M. V. R. Reddy 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》1997,12(1):8-12
In vitro released antigens by living parasites or bacteria underin vitro maintenance or short term culture showing specific humoral immune response have been explored in development of immunodiagnostics for infectious diseases such as filariasis and tuberculosis in our laboratory. ELISA usingB. malayi mf ES antigen has been explored for detecting IgG antibody by Indirect ELISA and antigen by Inhibition ELISA and in immunomonitoring of carriers as well as clinical filarial cases. A ten year follow up of mf carriers with DEC therapy showed disapperance of antigen and antibody followed by reappearance in few cases in an endemic area. None of the cases followed developed clinical symptoms suggesting the need for long term monitoring and treatment of microfilaraemic carriers. Further immunomonitoring was found to be useful in confirming filaria aetiology in the absence of microfilaremia and determining appropriate period of treatment of acute, early clinical and occult filarial infections for clinical relief and cure.Indirect Stick Penicillinase ELISA system using Mtb EST-6 antigen for detecting tuberculous IgG antibody and a Sandwich Penicillinase ELISA system using affinity purified antibody for detecting circulating antigen were explored in tuberculosis. A combination of both the assay systems with a sensitivity of 70% and specificity of 98% was found to be promising in the precise diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis. Further antigen detection was found to be useful in bone and joint tuberculosis. 相似文献
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The phylogenetic position of hyoliths has long been unsettled, with recent discoveries of a tentaculate feeding apparatus (‘lophophore’) and fleshy apical extensions from the shell (‘pedicle’) suggesting a lophophorate affinity. Here, we describe the first soft parts associated with the feeding apparatus of an orthothecid hyolith, Triplicatella opimus from the Chengjiang biota of South China. The tuft-like arrangement of the tentacles of T. opimus differs from that of hyolithids, suggesting they collected food directly from the substrate. A reassessment of the feeding organ in hyolithids indicates that it does not represent a lophophore and our analysis of the apical structures associated with some orthothecids show that these represent crushed portions of the shell and are not comparable to the brachiopod pedicle. The new information suggests that hyoliths are more likely to be basal members of the lophotrochozoans rather than lophophorates closely linked with the Phylum Brachiopoda. 相似文献
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J. V. Gnanou S. Muthayya A. V. Kurpad 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2006,21(1):193-195
A sample study of biological variation of plasma ferritin in healthy adult males 19–25 years of age (n=6) in the Indian population
was determined. Venous blood was collected on 3 non-consecutive days during a 3 week period. Plasma ferritin was measured
using enzyme linked immunoassay in an automated immunoassay system. Analytical and Biological variation was calculated. We
found a mean biological variation of 21.64%. Thus, our results indicate that biological variation contributed most to the
intraindividual variation. 相似文献
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基于多源信息融合可以从宏观微观两个层次无限逼近事实真相,依此作出更为科学的食品安全应急管理决策.政府大数据治理分为汇聚、融合、应用3个阶段,基于多源信息融合,从事前预防、事中处置和事后恢复应急管理过程构建大数据多源信息融合治理框架,包括治理主体、治理信息整合与主题数据库、信息共享与交换平台、信息安全管理保障等模块,分析在多源信息融合治理框架下,从政务资源整合、共享共建平台建设到信息安全管理保障的过程和实现途径.研究表明信息融合是提高食品安全应急管理能力的核心议题,是跨组织、跨部门协作的关键;政府必须基于共建共享的理念,将合作与共享纳入食品安全应急管理体系中;安全与监控体系应贯穿政府大数据融合过程,通过技术工具和数据标准实现数据安全保障. 相似文献