Over half of people with rheumatoid arthritis have periodontitis

...in Communities (ARIC) study, from whom serum was obtained at the time of a detailed periodontal assessment during the period 1996-1998. RA participant sera were assessed for ACPA and rheumatoid factor (RF) positivity using ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay). Participants were classified as having i...

Computer simulation captures immune response to flu

...eatments only work if given with 48 hours of infection, and vaccines take several weeks to start working, leaving a gap that might be filled by immune sera injection. Because its genetic makeup is new, little is known about the distribution of preexisiting immunity to current H1N1 "swine" flu across ...

Study finds unique HIV vaccine formula elicits strong immune responses

...es against a wide range of HIV viruses in order to counter the issue of frequent HIV mutations. Indeed, the high titer antibodies found in volunteers sera were able to recognize each of a very diverse group of Env antigens that were included in this study. More significantly, the majority of volunteers ...

Panacea Pharmaceuticals Initiates GMP Manufacturing of Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Test Kits

...ker. HAAH has been established as an excellent biomarker for many types of cancer, including prostate cancer. The protein is typically undetectable in sera from cancer-free individuals, thus, an elevated serum protein level of HAAH is highly diagnostic for cancer. PC Detect(SM) is recommended as an adjunc...

Panacea Announces the Availability of PC Detect(sm) for Prostate Cancer Screening

...ker. HAAH has been established as an excellent biomarker for many types of cancer, including prostate cancer. The protein is typically undetectable in sera from cancer-free individuals, thus, an elevated serum protein level of HAAH is highly diagnostic for cancer. "The addition of PC Detect(sm) to...

Influenza Virus also Protects Against H5N1

...t H5N1. Finally, the team tested samples of serum from human volunteers to see if they contained antibodies that reacted against the N1 of H5N1. sera from 31 of 38 volunteers reacted against the N1 of the human influenza virus H1N1, while serum from nine of these individuals showed low activity agai...

A Breakthrough in the Study of Hepatitis C

...articles. Once the system was established, the group examined whether sera from patients carrying HCV could infect the human fetal hepatocytes. When sera from patients infected with different HCV strains were added to the hepatoc...

WHO on an Anti Rabies and Snake Bite Mission

... humans. Though it is lethal, it is preventable completely when therapeutic sera are available. Treatment to victims of snake bite or dog bite depend... a uniform standard in the production, quality and marketing of therapeutic sera all over the world is needed. Thirdly transfer of latest development and te...

Bharat Biotech Launches Anti-Rabies Vaccine

...ly evaluated clinically for pre-bite and post-bite applications, and has proven to be well tolerated with minimal or no side effects. The immune sera samples from phase III clinical trials have been analysed at the Pune-based National Institute of Virology and the efficacy of the product has been es...

Prestigious Gairdner Awards for medical research in 2006 Goes To Two Yale biologists

...physics and Biochemistry at Yale, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, will be honored for her 'discovery of the reactivity of autoimmune sera with nuclear riboprotein particles and elucidation of the rules of small nuclear RNA in gene expression.' Thomas D. Pollard, M.D., Sterling Profes...

SERA in Medical Products

Agglutinating Sera

Description: Agglutinating sera for serological identification of E. coli by slide and/or tube agglutination tests. Agglutinating sera are packaged 2 mL / vial....
Company:Remel Inc.

Drug Control Level 3

Description:... Drug controls sera available in three levels for the control of accuracy and percision for up to 18 analytes...
Company:Randox Laboratories Ltd.

Drug Control Level 2

Description:... Drug controls sera available in three levels for the control of accuracy and percision for up to 18 analytes...
Company:Randox Laboratories Ltd.

Drug Control Level 1

Description:... Drug controls sera available in three levels for the control of accuracy and percision for up to 18 analytes...
Company:Randox Laboratories Ltd.

Specific Protein Controls level 3

Description:... Human based assayed sera available in three levels for the control of accuracy and precision for up to 25 analytes...
Company:Randox Laboratories Ltd.

Specific Protein Controls level 2

Description:... Human based assayed sera available in three levels for the control of accuracy and precision for up to 25 analytes...
Company:Randox Laboratories Ltd.

Specific Protein Controls level 1

Description:... Human based assayed sera available in three levels for the control of accuracy and precision for up to 25 analytes...
Company:Randox Laboratories Ltd.

Infectious Mono - Rapid Test

Description:.... Serologic diagnosis of IM is based on detection of serum antibodies associated with the infection, such as the heterophile antibodies present in the sera of IM patients....
Company:Bio-Quant, Inc.

RELISA ENA Test System

Description:... The RELISA ENA assays were designed with the proper sensitivity and specificity to help the clinician in the diagnosis of autoimmune disease. sera from over 2,000 patients with rheumatic disease and 1,000 normal individuals were tested during the development of the RELISA ENA Test System. Immuno ...
Company:Immuno Concepts N.A. Ltd.

Lyophilized Lipid Control

Description:... The K-ASSAY Lipid Controls are assayed controls produced from fresh human sera to monitor the accuracy and precision of quantitative lipid determinations of human sera specimens....
Company:Kamiya Biomedical Company

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SERA in Biological News

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- March 19, 2008

... compounds called perfluorochemicals (PFCs), the article says. In the study, Hisato Itawa and colleagues measured levels of PFCs in the livers and sera of Baikal seals the only entirely freshwater seal species in the world and then compared them to recorded levels in 1992. They found that several ch...

Influenza vaccine causes weaker immune response for children of rural Gabon than in semi-urban areas

...hildren from a rural area nearby. The group found that H1N1, H3N2 and B influenza virus-specific antibodies were already present in the majority of sera before vaccination indicating that influenza strains have already been circulating in Gabon. With little information available about influenza in Afri...

Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes

...d trial comparing two different chemotherapy regimens. One hundred and seventy patients (92 percent) had evidence of HBV infection. Of these, 125 had sera available to determine HBV DNA levels and were included in the study. For each patient, the researchers measured the level of HBV DNA in the bloo...

New culture method for hepatitis C virus uses primary hepatocytes and patient serum

...articles. Once the system was established, the group examined whether sera from patients carrying HCV could infect the human fetal hepatocytes. When sera from patients infected with different HCV strains were added to the hepatoc...

Experimental vaccine protects mice against deadly 1918 flu virus

... treatment, according to Dr. Nabel. "This technique would be very useful in defining evolving serotypes of flu viruses like H5N1 to develop immune sera and neutralizing monoclonal antibodies that may help to contain pandemic flu," says Dr. Nabel. The study authors indicate that further testing wi...

Biomarkers isolated from saliva successfully predict oral and breast cancer

...lect, preserve and amplify genetic material and proteins. In this study, the UCLA team found they could isolate messenger RNA from saliva and blood sera that might have diagnostic value for detecting early cancer. In the cell, messenger RNA or mRNA carries a copy of the genetic code or DNA, housed in t...

SERA in Biological Technology

Simultaneous Detection of 8 Cytokines in Mouse or Human Sera

Aiguo Zhang, Allora Aguilera, Chate Luu, Ivan Huang, Diana Davis, Chloe Etienne, Yong Song, Reni Thomas, Kris Simonyi, Jim Wong, Quan Nguyen Bio-Rad Laboratories, Life Science Group, 2000 Alfred Nobel Drive, Hercules, CA 94547 ...

RVX-208 Data Demonstrates Increase in Functional HDL Particles

...ed with placebo. Interestingly, the corresponding prebeta-HDL change was 42% (P=0.007) in the actively treated group compared to control. Furthermore, sera from subjects were assessed for ABCA1 mediated cholesterol efflux as a predictive marker for reverse cholesterol transport. Again, ABCA1-dependent cho...

Cell/Tissue Culture Supplies Market to Reach $4.97 Billion by 2012, According to New Report by Global Industry Analysts

...ue culture involves a diverse assortment of media, sera and reagents. Products essential for sustenance of...2.8% over the period 2008-2012. Global market for sera is projected to reach US$1.11 billion by 2012. ...MP Biomedicals, PerBio Science AB, PromoCell GmbH, sera Laboratories International, Sigma-Aldrich Corporat...

Biotest Diagnostics Receives FDA Clearance for Full Line of Traditional Blood Bank Reagents

...od Grouping Reagents -- Biotestcell(R) Reagent Red Blood Cells -- Rare Typing Reagents -- Anti-Human Globulins -- Enhancement Reagents -- Control sera and Red Cells Biotest's Reagent Red Blood Cell products include three configurations for antibody screening, two antibody identification panels, Coo...

Thermo Fisher Scientific to Expand Manufacturing Operation for Single-Use Bioprocessing Containers

...ioCenter over the next four years, replacing and expanding an older BPC operation in Logan. The new operation will include an administration building, sera and liquid-media processing facility, powdered- media facility, warehouse and the existing BPC facility. The initial project is expected to create 75 ...

Delivery of pCMV-S DNA Using the Helios Gene Gun System Is Superior to Intramuscular Injection in Balb/c Mice

...sence of antibodies to HBsAg. At all time points there was a significantly higher antibody titer compared to unimmunized control sera at a dilution of 1:1,000 (Figure 4). Antibody titers for the week 12 antisera are shown in Figure 5. ...

Preparative SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis of a Recombinant Epstein-Barr Virus Encoded Protein and Its Application in Serodiagnostic Test Systems, Rev C

... of continuous elution electrophoresis. sera from both EBVpositive and -negative donors were sc...ative sera, and 294 of 302 EBV-positive sera contained either IgM or IgG anti-p23 antibodies (o...entative panel of EBV-positive and -negative human sera for anti-p23 IgM- and IgG-specific anti...

Transfection Reagent Selector Kit Handbook

...nd reproducible results, additional sera from the same lot should be purchased. ... but for some applications less expensive sera like horse- or calf serum can be used. Generally s...tory and reproducible results, additional sera from the same lot should be purchased. ...

The QIAGEN Guide to Animal Cell Culture

... support growth of particular cells. Fetal calf serum (FCS) is the most frequenty used serum, but for some applications less expensive sera such as horse or calf serum can be used. Different serum batches should be tested to find the best one for each cell type. L-glutami...

New PCR Primers for Human Diseases

...ells or with cDNA made from RNA isolated from infected cells. The control reactions were performed with DNA from both uninfected sera and human cells. The specificity of each primer set is shown in figure 1 . Each amplification yielded a single product of the a...

SERA in Biological Products

RABBIT HAEMOLYTIC SERA from AbD Serotec

Description: Request Info...
Company:AbD Serotec

Anti-Acetylcholine Receptor-alpha (AChR-alpha) Monoclonal Antibody, Unconjugated from CHEMICON

Description:...eptor (AChR)-alpha. Exhibits homogenous, high affinity binding to the receptor. Binds weakly to a64-78. Inhibits binding of many myasthenia gravis sera to human AChR....
Company:CHEMICON

Blocker Array from BACHEM

Description:... Blocker Arrays can be used to test the crossreactivity of an antibody against various proteins and sera that are commonly used as blocking reagents or antigen carriers. The array contains spots for 21 different protein preparations on a nitrocellulose me...
Company:BACHEM

Blocker Array II from BACHEM

Description:... Blocker Array II can be used to test the crossreactivity of an antibody against various proteins and sera that are commonly used as blocking reagents or antigen carriers. The array contains spots for 19 different protein preparations on a nitrocellulose me...
Company:BACHEM

Mini-PROTEAN II Multiscreen Apparatus from Bio-Rad

Description:...ini-PROTEAN II multiscreen apparatus is used to screen blots of mini format (8 x 7 cm) gels. The apparatus can screen up to 40 different antibodies or sera without having to cut the blot into strips. The apparatus includes a base plate, 2 separate, detachable sample templates that accommodate one or two 8...
Company:Bio-Rad

Factor B-depleted serum from Quidel

Description:... Quidel's depleted sera are specifically depleted of a single complement p...olytically active complement components. Depleted sera have been used to assess complement activation in ...e monograph "Quantitation of C3 activity in Murine sera by Hemolytic Assay "is available from Quidel's tec...
Company:Quidel

Normal Pooled Human Serum from Innovative Research

Description:...us (Anti-HIV 1/2), Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and Nonreactive for Hepatitis B Surface Antigen (HbsAg) and Non-reactive by a screening test for syphilis. sera are pooled from multiple donors. Available Anticoagulants: N-02: Citrate N-03: Alsevers N-04: Heparin (Na) N-05: ACD N-06: K2EDTA N-07: ...
Company:Innovative Research

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SERA in Biological Dictionary

Isozymes

...phorylation of phospholemman ... The present invention provides fluorescence-based methods for sensitively detecting total ADH activity in human sera and selectively measuring the activity of ... Protein kinase C (PKC) isozymes regulate epithelial barrier function and alter ... In various mod...