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Articles in the same Issue

1. Editorial
2. Appropriate labelling of blood collection tubes: a step ahead towards patient’s safety
3. Reviews
4. New insights into adipose tissue dysfunction in insulin resistance
5. Role of biomarkers in cardioncology
6. Minireviews
7. Measurement of the pro-hormone of brain type natriuretic peptide (proBNP): methodological considerations and pathophysiological relevance
8. High-sensitivity troponin assays in the evaluation of patients with acute chest pain in the emergency department
9. Opinion Paper
10. Regulation of in vitro diagnostics (IVDs) for use in clinical diagnostic laboratories: towards the light or dark in clinical laboratory testing?
11. Guidelines and Recommendations
12. The Greek way to the Register: the establishment and operation of the Register for Clinical Chemists-Clinical Biochemists in Greece
13. Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
14. Rapid HLA-B27 screening with real-time TaqMan PCR: a clinical validation in the Dutch population
15. General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
16. Results of the recalibration of creatinine measurement with the modular Beckman Coulter^® Jaffe creatinine method
17. Heterophilic antibody interference in commercial immunoassays; a screening study using paired native and pre-blocked sera
18. Oxidative status in the lungs associated with tobacco smoke exposure
19. Correlation of cortisol in 1-cm hair segment with salivary cortisol in human: hair cortisol as an endogenous biomarker
20. Evaluation of the MassTrak Immunosuppressant XE Kit for the determination of everolimus and cyclosporin A in human whole blood employing isotopically labeled internal standards
21. Simultaneous determination of cyclophosphamide and 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide in human plasma by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry – application to Chinese systemic lupus erythematosus patients
22. Sterol profiles in plasma and erythrocyte membranes in patients with Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome: a six-year experience
23. Chemistry and haematology sample rejection and clinical impact in a tertiary laboratory in Cape Town
24. Trefoil factor family peptides are increased in the saliva of children with mucositis
25. Validation of commercial assays for measurements of trefoil factor family peptides in serum
26. To mix or not to mix venous blood samples collected in vacuum tubes?
27. Rapid and simple IgG specific test for the exclusion of heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT)
28. β-Thalassemia mutations in subjects with borderline HbA₂ values: a pilot study in North India
29. Cancer Diagnostics
30. Genetic variants in miR-146a, miR-149, miR-196a2, miR-499 and their influence on relative expression in lung cancers
31. The diagnostic accuracy of two human epididymis protein 4 (HE4) testing systems in combination with CA125 in the differential diagnosis of ovarian masses
32. Infectious Diseases
33. Measurement of granulocyte maturation may improve the early diagnosis of the septic state
34. Cardiovascular Diseases
35. Influence of hemolysis on troponin testing: studies on Beckman Coulter UniCel Dxl 800 Accu-TnI and overview of the literature
36. Methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T polymorphism and congenital heart disease: a meta-analysis
37. Determination of asymmetric dimethyl arginine in human serum by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry: clinical application in hypertensive subjects
38. Diabetes
39. The optimal cut-points of HbA_1c for detecting newly diagnosed diabetes and pre-diabetes in the Chinese population living in Sichuan
40. Letters to the Editor
41. Specimen labelling: before or after collection?
42. Effect of storage conditions and freeze/thaw cycles on aquaporin-4 antibody (NMO-IgG) serum levels
43. Comparison of vancomycin concentrations in blood and interstitial fluid: a possible model for less invasive therapeutic drug monitoring
44. Acknowledgement
45. Acknowledgement