Free light chains (FLCs) are immunoglobulin light chains that are found in the serum (blood) in an unbound (free) state. In recent decades, measuring the...

include serum protein electrophoresis, urine protein electrophroresis, serum or urine immunofixation, measurement of serum free light chains and renal...

fight infection. Serum free light-chain measurement can detect free light chains in the blood. Monoclonal free light chains in the serum or urine are called...

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is diagnosed by histological examination of kidney biopsy. Serum-free light-chain measurement Comprehensive Clinical Nephrology (6 ed.). Elsevier. 2019...

Serum". www.mayocliniclabs.com. Mayo Clinic Laboratories. Retrieved 2 July 2020. Rajkumar SV, Kyle RA, Therneau TM, et al. (August 2005). "Serum free...

serum where it functions as an iron carrier. Plasma ferritin is also an indirect marker of the total amount of iron stored in the body; hence, serum ferritin...

the bloodstream. Bilirubin is degraded by light. Blood collection tubes containing blood or (especially) serum to be used in bilirubin assays should be...

decompose peroxides and carbonyl molecules. These molecules undergo free radical chain reactions, but antioxidants inhibit them by preventing the oxidation...

Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) is a laboratory technique combining reverse transcription of RNA into DNA (in this context called...

clonal plasma cells, a serum involved / uninvolved free light chain ratio ≥ 100 (the concentration of the involved free light chain must be ≥ 100 mg/L) and...

proposing that a mediator in serum could react with a foreign antigen. His idea prompted Paul Ehrlich to propose the side-chain theory for antibody and antigen...

goes towards starting free radical chain reactions instead, in which other AGEs participate readily. Overall tanner enhances free radical injury. Although...

properties for the assay are developed. Analytes in biological liquids such as serum or urine are frequently measured using immunoassays for medical and research...

assay used to measure flu-specific antibody levels in blood serum. In this variation, serum antibodies to the influenza virus will interfere with the virus...

over-supplementation has no effect on serum testosterone. There is limited evidence that low-fat diets may reduce total and free testosterone levels in men. Weight...

defined as the purity required to produce a 25 mm bacteria-free ring. It was an arbitrary measurement, as the chemistry was not yet known; the first research...

change in the polarization of light passing through the material. These measurements are known as polarimetry. Polarized light microscopes, which contain...

unsaturated carbon chain. Pure retinol is extremely sensitive to oxidization and is prepared and transported at low temperatures and oxygen-free atmospheres...

in Light's criteria) is that a ratio of pleural LDH to serum LDH greater than 0.6 or 2⁄3 the upper limit of the normal laboratory value for serum LDH...

permittivity of the metal and λ0 is the free space wavelength. The metallic film is capable of absorbing light due to the coherent oscillation of the conduction...

chemical compounds that have multiple fluorine atoms attached to an alkyl chain; there are 7 million such chemicals according to PubChem. PFAS came into...

to this analogue, which associates the insulin molecule to the abundant serum albumin, which in turn extends the effect and reduces the risk of hypoglycemia...

throat discomfort, headache, allergic skin reaction, dyspnea, declines in serum cholinesterase levels, nausea, vomiting, nose bleeding, fatigue, dizziness...

mitochondrial uncouplers, electron transport chain inhibitors, or mitochondrial superoxide dismutase mimetics. A fasting serum insulin level greater than 29 microIU/mL...

Determination of the parent drug in serum or its metabolites in urine has been accomplished by GC-MS or LC-MS. Serum JWH-018 concentrations are generally...

Mohammad (2021). "A label-free graphene-based impedimetric biosensor for real-time tracing of the cytokine storm in blood serum; suitable for screening...

for the separation, purification and measurement of nine components of hemolytic complement in guinea-pig serum". Immunochemistry. 3 (2): 111–35. doi:10...

O (1955). "Zone electrophoresis in starch gels: group variations in the serum proteins of normal human adults". Biochem J. 61 (4): 629–41. doi:10.1042/bj0610629...

US 2017–18 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey showed mean serum concentrations of 53.4  μmol/L. The percent of people reported as deficient...