... 8 No 4
Research article
Diagnostic value of anti-human citrullinated fibrinogen ELISA and
comparison with four other anti -citrullinated protein assays
Bert Vander Cruyssen
1
*, Tineke Cantaert
1
*, ... arthritis, one
with polymyositis, one with polymyalgia rheumatica and three
with osteoarthritis.
The ROC curve comparing the diagnostic performance of
Ah...
... systems for the detection of anti-topo
I antibodies revealed a diagnostic sensitivity for SSc of
approximately 24% and a diagnostic specificity of at least
99.6%. The sensitivity to identify ... detection of anti-topo I antibodies by means of LIA
(ELISA) revealed a sensitivity for diffuse SSc of 60.4%
(59.4%) with a specificity of 95.1% (95.6%), referring to the
cohort...
... vimentin (MCV) and the anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (CCP) 2 assayComparison of the diagnostic values of the anti-modified citrullinated
vimentin (MCV) and the anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide ... presence
Table 2
Comparison of sensitivity and specificity of the anti-modified
citrullinated vimentin and the anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide
test (n = 467)
C...
... University of Yaoundé, Yaoundé,
Cameroon. Genotyping of HLA-DRB1 alleles was performed by polymerase chain reaction and hybridization with
sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes on microbeads arrays. ... arginyl instead
of citrullyl residues was also tested. Diagnosis sensitiv ity
and specificity of anti-CCP2 antibody determination
have been previously determined in our labora...
... diagno-
sis of infections with respiratory syncytial viruses A and B,
influenza viruses A and B, and human parainfluenza virus
types 1, 2, and 3 by multiplex quantitative reverse transcrip-
tion-polymerase ... Guillois B:
Detection of respiratory syncytial virus, parainfluenzavirus 3,
adenovirus and rhinovirus sequences in respiratory tract of
infants by polymerase chain rea...
... concentrations and 24-hour and in-hospital mortali-
ty. The best cutoff value of six-hour lactate in predicting 24-hour
mortality was 7.1 mmol/l, with a sensitivity of 64%, specificity of 61%.
ROC ... 3,485 GE/ml with a sensitivity of 63%, specificity of
69%, positive likelihood ratio of 1.75 (95% CI, 1.44 to
2.35) and correct classification rate of 62%. The best...
... association of ST-T abnormalities,
myocarditis and cardiomyopathy with H
1
N
1
influenza in pregnancy: two case reports and
review of the literature
Karen Chan
1
, David Meek
1
and Indranil Chakravorty
1,2*
Abstract
Introduction: ... association of ST-T
abnormalities, myocarditis and cardiomyopathy with H
1
N
1
influenza in
pregnancy: two case reports and review of the l...
... intermediates.
The systems are stochastic and in course of time transitions within th e configuration
spaces of the systems occur randomly. The rapidity of transitions is governed by the
previously introduced ... similarity of the underlying
moments, and to define similarity measures acco rdingly. This could be advan tageous
for studying the problematic limits discussed above. Thi...
... days. How
difficult have your days and nights been
generally?
Did anyone help you with the answers? (yes/
no)
5. Think about the past seven days. How difficult
have the days and nights of your ... Boys and
patients with combined subtype tended to be younger
and were diagnosed earlier than girls or patients with pre-
dominantly inattentive subtype. 239 (70.7%) of the boys...
... perhaps substrates of other
protein kinases. With regard to the analysis of phospho-
proteins by thin-layer chromatography, it should b e noted
that the novel use of polyethyleneimine-impregnated ... Kishimoto, A., Nishiyama, K., Nakanishi, H., Uratsuji, Y. ,
Nomura, H ., Takeyama, Y. & Nishizuka, Y. (1985) Studies on the
phosphorylation of m yelin basic protein by pro...