Standardization of assays for clinically important enzymes that have high biologic variation: what is all the fuss about?

Artikel in diesem Heft

1. Editorial
2. Standardization of assays for clinically important enzymes that have high biologic variation: what is all the fuss about?
3. Minireview
4. Standardization in clinical enzymology: a challenge for the theory of metrological traceability
5. Review
6. Laboratory reporting of hemostasis assays: the final post-analytical opportunity to reduce errors of clinical diagnosis in hemostasis?
7. Opinion Paper
8. The underestimated problem of using serum magnesium measurements to exclude magnesium deficiency in adults; a health warning is needed for “normal” results
9. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
10. Integrated PCR amplification and detection processes on a Lab-on-Chip platform: a new advanced solution for molecular diagnostics
11. Matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) polymorphism is a risk factor for endometrial cancer susceptibility
12. Association of the CD28/CTLA4/ICOS polymorphisms with susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis
13. Lack of association between DAZ gene methylation patterns and spermatogenic failure
14. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
15. Evaluation of five routine glucose methods on an Olympus AU5400 analyzer using the CDC hexokinase reference method
16. Multicentre evaluation of the Tosoh HbA1c G8 analyser
17. Performance of a fully automated quantitative neopterin measurement assay in a routine voluntary blood donation setting
18. Assay of oxidized fibrinogen reactivity (OFR) as a biomarker of oxidative stress in human plasma: the role of lysine analogs
19. Decrease in uric acid in acute ischemic stroke correlates with stroke severity, evolution and outcome
20. Development and validation of a high performance liquid chromatography method to determine linezolid concentrations in pig pulmonary tissue
21. Is heparin plasma suitable for the determination of B-type natriuretic peptide on the Beckman-Coulter Access 2?
22. Composition of kidney stone fragments obtained after extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
23. Reference Values and Biological Variations
24. Gender does not influence cystatin C concentrations in healthy volunteers
25. Stability of serum thyroid hormones following 8–11 years of cold storage
26. Infectious Diseases
27. Detection and quantitation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) DNA in EDTA whole blood samples using automated sample preparation and real time PCR
28. Letters to the Editor
29. The polymorphisms –1131T>C and the S19W of the APOA5 gene are not associated with coronary artery disease in a Brazilian population
30. Tissue factor +5466A>G and –1208D>I genetic polymorphisms and severity of rheumatoid arthritis
31. Ability of deferasirox to bind iron during measurement of iron