1st National Congress of Laboratory Medicine

Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorial
2. Laboratory medicine: an essential partner in the care of cancer patients
3. Reviews
4. Circulating tumor cells as emerging tumor biomarkers in breast cancer
5. Prognostic, therapeutic and diagnostic potential of microRNAs in non-small cell lung cancer
6. Increased plasma concentrations of tumour markers in the absence of neoplasia
7. Recent progress and clinical importance on pharmacogenetics in cancer therapy
8. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
9. Genotyping of the hemochromatosis HFE p.H63D and p.C282Y mutations by high-resolution melting with the Rotor-Gene 6000^® instrument
10. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
11. Mapping point-of-care performance using locally-smoothed median and maximum absolute difference curves
12. The use of inflammatory markers as a method for discharging patients post hip or knee arthroplasty
13. Significant elevation of plasma pentraxin 3 in patients with pelvic inflammatory disease
14. Combined effects of coffee consumption and serum γ-glutamyltransferase on serum C-reactive protein in middle-aged and elderly Japanese men and women
15. Multicentre comparison of free thyroid hormones immunoassays: the Immunocheck study
16. Comparative evaluation of capillary zone electrophoresis and HPLC in the determination of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin
17. Determinants of blood levels of some thrombogenic biomarkers in healthy Arab adolescent subjects
18. Analytical performance of a multiplexed, bead-based cytokine detection system in small volume samples
19. Diagnostic utility of a soluble cytokeratin 18 assay for gastrointestinal graft-vs.-host disease detection
20. Cancer Diagnostics
21. The correlation between zinc and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1), its binding protein (IGFBP-3) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) in prostate cancer
22. Differential expression of CDC25 phosphatases splice variants in human breast cancer cells
23. Serum APRIL, a potential tumor marker in pancreatic cancer
24. Clinical significance of pleural effusion mesothelin in malignant pleural mesothelioma
25. Infectious Diseases
26. New serum biomarkers for detection of tuberculosis using surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
27. Cardiovascular Diseases
28. Association of a functional polymorphism in the MMP7 gene promoter with susceptibility to vulnerable carotid plaque in a Han Chinese Population
29. Diabetes
30. Glycated albumin may be a possible alternative to hemoglobin A_1c in diabetic patients with anemia
31. A simple micro-photometric method for urinary iodine determination
32. Letters to the Editor
33. Clinically needed sensitivity for very low levels of Factor XIII: not yet proven for a new functional assay
34. Apolipoprotein A5-12238 T>C gene polymorphism and risk factors for metabolic syndrome in the Guo Shan Yao and the Han populations
35. Congress Abstracts
36. 10.1515/CCLM.2011.738
37. 1st National Congress of Laboratory Medicine