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DIAGNOSIS OF COELIAC DISEASE: MOVING BEYOND BIOPSY

Featured in MEDLAB Magazine

Serological tests nowadays form the backbone of coeliac disease (CD) diagnostics, with biopsy increasingly relegated to a confirmatory role and used only to clarify ...

UROMODULIN A NEW DAWN FOR AN OLD BIOMARKER

Featured in MEDLAB Magazine

The kidney marker uromodulin is experiencing a renaissance. Although first identified over 60 years ago, the protein languished until recently, when new research propelled ...

AUTOIMMUNE ENCEPHALITIS

Featured in Forum Sanitas

In recent years, new forms of encephalitis caused by antibodies directed against the nervous system have been identified. Knowledge of these encephalitides has led to the ...

BIOMARKERS FOR NEURODEGENERATION DIAGNOSIS OF ALZHEIMER’S AND MORE

Featured in MEDLAB Magazine

Neurodegeneration is the bête noire behind diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease and motor neuron diseases (MND), as well as traumatic brain ...

MULTIPLEX DETERMINATION OF ANA AND CYTOPLASMIC ANTIBODIES ACCORDING TO ICAP

Featured in CLINICAL LABORATORY INTERNATIONAL

The international consensus on standardized nomenclature of human epithelial cell (HEp-2 cell) patterns in indirect immunofluorescence (ICAP, ...

MULTIPLEX AUTOANTIBODY DIAGNOSTICS IN SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS

Featured in MEDLAB Magazine

Autoantibody testing is a cornerstone in the diagnosis of the rare autoimmune disease systemic sclerosis (SSc). SSc is characterised by a heterogeneous group of ...

FAST DIAGNOSIS OF MYOSITIS BY MULTIPLEX AUTOANTIBODY TESTING

Featured in MEDLAB Magazine

Autoantibodies are important biomarkers for the diagnosis and classification of idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM). An IIM diagnosis, moreover, necessitates targeted ...

COMPLETE LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS OF ZIKA VIRUS INFECTIONS

Featured in CLINICAL LABORATORY INTERNATIONAL

Laboratory diagnosis of Zika virus (ZIKV) infections is based on two main pillars: direct detection of the viral RNA genome and serological detection of ...

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