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Establishment of Reference Intervals of Blood Parameters Among the Healthy Afghan Population
Purpose: This study was designed and conducted to validate the reference values of hematological parameters for healthy adult male and female residents of Kabul city, Afghanistan. Methodology: In this cross-sectional study, the samples were collected accor ...
Albany2024Piezoelectric suspended microchannel resonators
The objective of this PhD thesis is the development of a microfluidic platform for the real-time measurements of the mechanical properties of biological analytes at the single entity level.The systems developed for these purposes consist of piezoelectrical ...
EPFL2022Genomic Diversity of Torque Teno Virus in Blood Samples from Febrile Paediatric Outpatients in Tanzania: A Descriptive Cohort Study
Torque teno virus (TTV) is considered to be an ubiquitous member of the commensal human blood virome commonly reported in mixed genotype co-infections. This study investigates the genomic diversity of TTV in blood samples from 816 febrile Tanzanian childre ...
MDPI2022Development and validation of a multiplex real-time qPCR assay using GMP-grade reagents for leprosy diagnosis
Stewart Cole, Charlotte Avanzi, Thyago Leal Calvo
Author summaryLeprosy is a chronic dermato-neurological disease caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an obligate intracellular bacterium. Diagnosis of leprosy often relies on skin examinations for clinical signs, bacilli staining from skin smears and invasive s ...
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE2022Toward Microfluidic Label-Free Isolation and Enumeration of Circulating Tumor Cells from Blood Samples
Philippe Renaud, Margaux Catherine Marie Duchamp, Camille Alice Raillon, Benoît Xavier Emmanuel Desbiolles
The isolation, analysis, and enumeration of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from cancer patient blood samples are a paradigm shift for cancer patient diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment monitoring. Most methods used to isolate and enumerate these target cel ...
WILEY2019A biosensor for measuring NAD(+) levels at the point of care
Johan Auwerx, Kai Johnsson, Luc Patiny, Elena Katsyuba, Qiuliyang Yu, Lin Xue
The cellular level of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD(+)), through its different functions, affects cellular metabolism and signalling(1-3). A decrease in the NAD(+) content has been associated with various pathologies and physiological aging(4,5), ...
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2019Association between Brain and Plasma Glutamine Levels in Healthy Young Subjects Investigated by MRS and LC/MS
Both glutamine (Gln) and glutamate (Glu) are known to exist in plasma and brain. However, despite the assumed relationship between brain and plasma, no studies have clarified the association between them. Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) was se ...
2019Combining fluorescence-based image segmentation and automated microfluidics for ultrafast cell-by-cell assessment of biomarkers for HER2-type breast carcinoma
Martinus Gijs, Daniel Migliozzi, Huu Tuan Nguyen
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) is one of the main clinical techniques for biomarker assessment on tissue biopsies. It consists in chromogenic labeling with specific antibodies, followed by optical imaging, and it is used for diagnosis and therapeutic targeting ...
SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng2019A high resolution LC-MS targeted method for the concomitant analysis of 11 contraceptive progestins and 4 steroids
Cathrin Brisken, Jonathan Paz Montoya, Marc Moniatte, Fabio De Martino, Marie Shamseddin, Csaba Ferenc László, Alexandre Béguin
In the context of hormonal contraception and hormone replacement therapy (HRT), many women are exposed to exogenous hormones. Current use of hormonal contraception with combined ethinyl estradiol and different progestins bestows a breast cancer relative ri ...
2019Microdevice-integrated immunoassays for Point-of-Care Therapeutic Drug Monitoring
A significant number of drugs exhibit narrow therapeutic windows and high inter-individual pharmacokinetic variability. In such cases, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring (TDM) is compulsory in order to optimize the efficacy of the drug while avoiding adverse effe ...
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