Journal of clinical oncology : official journal…
2015
PURPOSE
Most patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have associated chronic liver disease, the severity of which is currently assessed by the Child-Pugh (C-P) grade. In this international… (More)
BACKGROUND
Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) from hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) displays differential affinity to lectin Lens culinaris agglutinin (LCA) compared to that from chronic hepatitis/liver… (More)
Implementation of the on-chip immunoassay for alpha-fetoprotein (AFP)-L3% was achieved using a fully automated microfluidic instrument platform that will prepare the chip and run the assay with a… (More)
BACKGROUND
Invasive fungal infections (IFIs) are life-threatening complications in neutropenic patients with hematological malignancies. Because early diagnosis of IFI is difficult, new noninvasive,… (More)
BACKGROUND & AIMS
GALAD and BALAD-2 are statistical models for estimating the likelihood of the presence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in individual patients with chronic liver disease and the… (More)
AIM
To determine whether serum hyaluronic acid reliably predicts the severity of hepatic fibrosis in patients with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
METHODS
We studied 79 patients with… (More)
Lectin-affinity electrophoretic separation of serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) was carried out using AFP Differentiation Kits, which used Lens culinaris agglutinin-A (Kit L) and erythroagglutinating… (More)
INTRODUCTION
Serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a useful marker of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), although the serum AFP concentration is also increased in patients with chronic liver diseases (CLD).… (More)
The Lens culinaris agglutinin-reactive fraction of alpha-fetoprotein (AFP-L3) has been used as a diagnostic and prognostic marker of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The analytical sensitivity of a… (More)
Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is a glycosylated chymotrypsin-like serine protease and is found mainly in prostatic tissue and seminal fluid. We purified two forms of PSA (PSA-A and PSA-B) from… (More)