摘要:
Uses of glycine N-acyltransferase (GNAT) from body fluids or body tissues in human and veterinary medicine as a marker peptide for diagnosis, for prognosis and for monitoring the course of inflammations and infections and/or as a target for therapeutically influencing the course of inflammations and/or infections.
摘要:
A method is revealed for the quantitative determination of the proportion of the free form of a thyroid hormone ligand in a sample of a biological fluid in which the ligand is present partly in the free form and also partly in a form in which it is bound to physiological binding proteins. In the first step, a ligand derivative of the thyroid hormone with an immunoglobulin, a labelled specific binder, and a test tube whose walls are coated with an excess of a protein material are provided. In the second step, a sample of the biological fluid containing an unknown amount of the free thyroid hormone ligand, a solution containing a known amount of the ligand derivative, and a solution containing a known, less than stoichiometric amount of the labelled specific binder are added to the test tube to form a liquid reaction mixture. In the third step, the reaction mixture is incubated to allow the free thyroid hormone ligand and the ligand derivative in the liquid reaction mixture to compete for the binding sites of the labelled specific binder, and to allow, in a concomitant slower reaction, the binding of the immunoglobulin part of the ligand derivative to the excess of the protein material on the walls of the test tube. In the fourth step, the remaining liquid reaction mixture is removed from the test tube. In the final steps, the amount of labelled specific binder bound to the walls of the test tube is determined and the amount of the free thyroid hormone ligand calculated.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for the diagnosis and/or risk stratification of cardiac diseases and diseases of the respiratory tract and lungs. According to said method, the free fragment N-terminal proEndothelin (NT-proET-1; AS 18-52 of the pre-proET according to FIG. 1) or fragments and partial peptides thereof is or are determined.
摘要:
The invention relates to the use of carbamoyl synthetase 1 (CPS 1) as a humoral biomarker in in vitro methods for early diagnosis and detection, progress prognosis, the evaluation of the severity, and the progress evaluation of tumor diseases and chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases.
摘要:
The invention relates to a method for diagnosing and/or stratifying the risk of infections or chronic diseases of the respiratory tract and lungs, particularly lower respiratory tract infections and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. In said method, provasopressin (proAVP) or fragments or partial peptides thereof, especially copeptin or neurophysin II, is/are determined. The invention further relates to suitable biomarker combinations for in-vitro diagnosis.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method for the stratification of a subject having an acute or a chronic disease, wherein said disease effects endothelial function/dysfunction, comprising the steps of (i) taking a sample of bodily fluid from said subject; (ii) determining in said sample of bodily fluid the concentration of a vasoactive hormone or fragments thereof or precursors or fragments thereof having a length of at least 12 amino acid residues; (iii) stratifying said subjects into either of the categories: (a) responder to a medication for treatment of said disease, (b) non-responder to a medication for treatment of said disease not showing an unfavourable effect after having received said medication; (c) subjects showing an unfavourable effect after having received said medication. The invention also relates to the use of an antibody or a functional fragment thereof in the method according to the invention.
摘要:
The invention relates to an in vitro method for detecting the formation of endothelins during serious illnesses, especially cardiovascular diseases, inflammations, sepsis and cancer, in whole blood, plasma or serum of a human patient for medical diagnosis. Using this method, relatively long-lasting peptide fragments, especially a C-terminal peptide fragment, of the processed primary prepro- or proendothelins that contain neither the actual biologically active endothelin nor its direct precursor, big endothelin, can be detected.
摘要:
Subject of the present invention are assays and in vitro methods for the prediction of first coronary and cardiovascular events and biomarkers useful therein.
摘要:
Disclosed is an improved sandwich immunoassay for identifying partial proANP peptides in cardiac and sepsis diagnosis by using two antibodies which specifically bond to partial sequences in the mid-regional area of NT-proANP, extending from amino acid 53 to amino acid 83 of NT-proANP.
摘要:
The invention relates to in vitro methods for prognosis and risk-stratification for a patient having a cardiac disease as heart failure. The invention further relates to the use of such a method.