IFCC Scientific Division

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorial
2. IFCC Scientific Division
3. IFCC Documents
4. Nucleic acid reference materials (NARMs): definitions and issues
5. An appraisal of statistical procedures used in derivation of reference intervals
6. An outline for a vocabulary of nominal properties and examinations – basic and general concepts and associated terms
7. Review
8. Standardizing plasma protein measurements worldwide: a challenging enterprise
9. Status Reports
10. Standardization activities in the field of thyroid function tests: a status report
11. Toward standardization of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) measurements: II. Performance of a laboratory network running the HPLC candidate reference measurement procedure and evaluation of a candidate reference material
12. Research Articles
13. Common reference intervals for aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and γ-glutamyl transferase (GGT) in serum: results from an IFCC multicenter study
14. Development of a candidate secondary reference procedure (immunoassay based measurement procedure of higher metrological order) for cardiac troponin I: I. Antibody characterization and preliminary validation
15. Towards the development of a certified reference material for hemoglobin A₂
16. Short Communication
17. First certified reference material for cystatin C in human serum ERM-DA471/IFCC
18. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
19. Increased γ-glutamyltransferase and decreased total bilirubin are associated with metabolic syndrome in Korean postmenopausal women
20. Effect of homeostasis model assessment computational method on the definition and associations of insulin resistance
21. Association between thyroid hormones, lipids and oxidative stress biomarkers in overt hypothyroidism
22. Biochemical markers of particle induced osteolysis in C57BL/6 mice
23. An on-line solid phase extraction procedure for the routine quantification of urinary methylmalonic acid by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
24. Cancer Diagnostics
25. Increased integrity of circulating cell-free DNA in plasma of patients with acute leukemia
26. The relationship between three heat shock protein 70 gene polymorphisms and susceptibility to lung cancer
27. Real-time polymerase chain reaction quantification of free DNA in serum of patients with polyps and colorectal cancers
28. Letters to the Editor
29. Thyroid hormones are stable even during prolonged frozen storage
30. Thyroid hormones after long-term cold storage: stable or unstable, that is the question
31. Biomarkers for early detection of mesothelioma in asbestos-exposed subjects
32. Mean platelet volume and platelet distribution width are useful in the differential diagnosis of aplastic anemia and idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
33. Kinetics of highly sensitive troponin I and T after eccentric exercise
34. Interferences in red blood cell counting in urinalysis using evacuated tubes
35. Congress Abstracts
36. 3rd Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry Salzburg, Austria, 27-30 October 2010