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| 1 |  | Hansen, Mark S.; Coffin, Cheryl M.; Capecchi, Mario R. | Pax3:Fkhr interferes with embryonic Pax3 and Pax7 function: implications for alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma cell of origin. | To investigate the role of the translocation-associated gene Pax3:Fkhr in alveolar rhabdomyosarcomas, we generated a Cre-mediated conditional knock-in of Pax3:Fkhr into the mouse Pax3 locus. Exploring embryonic tumor cell origins, we replaced a Pax3 allele with Pax3:Fkhr throughout its expression do... | Neuroprogenitor; Embryogenesis | 2004-11-01 |
| 2 |  | Eichwald, Ernst; Capecchi, Mario R.; Thomas, Kirk R. | Mouse model for the delta F508 allele of cystic fibrosis | The most common cause of cystic fibrosis is a mutation that deletes phenylalanine 508 in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR). The delta F508 protein is misprocessed and degraded rather than traveling to the apical membrane. We used a novel strategy to introduce the delta F508 ... | Digestive System; Disease Models, Animal; Electrolytes; Mice, Inbred C57BL | 1995-10 |
| 3 |  | Coffin, Cheryl M.; Capecchi, Mario R. | Alveolar rhabdomyosarcomas in conditional Pax3:Fkhr mice: cooperativity of Ink4a/ARF and Trp53 loss of function. | Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma is an aggressive childhood muscle cancer for which outcomes are poor when the disease is advanced. Although well-developed mouse models exist for embryonal and pleomorphic rhabdomyosarcomas, neither a spontaneous nor a transgenic mouse model of alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma has... | Cell Differentiation; Forkhead Transcription Factors; Myogenic Regulatory Factors | 2004-11-01 |
| 4 |  | Liew, Michael; Erali, Maria; Page, Sam; Hillyard, David R.; Wittwer, Carl T. | Hepatitis C genotyping by denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography | Determination of the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype for infected patients increasingly has become accepted as the standard of care. Genotype assignment helps in assessing disease prognosis and assists in establishing the appropriate duration of treatment. The great genetic diversity of HCV, with 1... | Base Sequence; 5' Untranslated Regions; Genotype; Hepacivirus; Molecular Sequence Data | 2004-01 |
| 5 |  | Dwight, Zachary Lawrence | Heterozygote PCR product melting curve prediction | Melting curve prediction of PCR products is limited to perfectly complementary strands. Multiple domains are calculated by recursive nearest-neighbor thermodynamics. However, the melting curve of an amplicon containing a heterozygous single nucleotide variant (SNV) after PCR is the composite of four... | | 2014-01-01 |
| 6 |  | Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L. | Effects of hemoglobin (Hb) E and HbD traits on measurements of glycated Hb (HbA1c) by 23 methods. | Glycohemoglobin (GHB), reported as hemoglobin (Hb) A1c, is a marker of long-term glycemic control in patients with diabetes and is directly related to risk for diabetic complications. HbE and HbDare the second and fourth most common Hb variants worldwide. We investigated the accuracy of HbA1c measur... | Glycohemoglobin; GHB; Glycated Hb; Glycemic control | 2008 |
| 7 |  | Wittwer, Carl T. | Genotyping accuracy of high-resolution DNA melting instruments | High-resolution DNA melting is a closed-tube method for genotyping and variant scanning that depends on the thermal stability of PCR-generated products. Instruments vary in thermal precision, sample format, melting rates, acquisition, and software. Instrument genotyping accuracy has not been assesse... | | 2014-01-01 |
| 8 |  | Owen, William E.; Rockwood, Alan L.; Roberts, William L.; Meikle, A. Wayne | Development and performance evaluation of a tandem mass spectrometry assay for 4 adrenal steroids | Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a group of autosomal recessive disorders caused by a deficiency of 1 of 4 enzymes required for the synthesis of glucocorticoids, mineralocorticoids, and sex hormones. Analysis of 11-deoxycortisol (11DC), 17-hydroxyprogesterone (17OHP), 17-hydroxypregnenolone (17O... | Congenital adrenal hyperplasia; Adrenal steroids; Tandem mass spectrometry assay | 2006 |
| 9 |  | Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L.; Ring, Terry Arthur | Development and validation of an automated thawing and mixing workcell | Working toward a goal of total laboratory automation, we are automating manual activities in our highest volume laboratory section. Because half of all specimens arriving in this laboratory section are frozen, we began by developing an automated workcell for thawing frozen specimens and mixing the t... | Automated workcell; Laboratory automation | 2007 |
| 10 |  | Digre, Kathleen B.; Gouw, Launce G.; Harris, Catherine P.; Haines, John H.; Ptacek, L.J. | Autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxia with retinal degeneration: clinical, neuropathologic, and genetic analysis of a large kindred. | The autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias (ADCA) comprise a heterogeneous group of neurologic disorders characterized by degeneration of the cerebellum, spinal cord, and brainstem. Genetic analysis has revealed two loci, SCA1 on chromosome 6p, and SCA2 on chromosome 12q, responsible for some ADCA. W... | Retinal Degeneration; Cerebellar Ataxia; Genetic Analysis | 1994-08 |
| 11 |  | Singleton, J. Robinson; Smith, A. Gordon | Microvascular complications of impaired glucose tolerance. | Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) serves as a marker for the state of insulin resistance and predicts both large- and small-vessel vascular complications, independent of a patient's progression to diabetes. Patients with IGT are at significantly increased risk for death and morbidity due to myocardia... | Microcirculation; Humans | 2003-12-01 |
| 12 |  | Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L. | Performance characteristics of eight estradiol immunoassays | Measurement of estradiol is useful in assisted reproduction, evaluation of infertility, menopause, and male feminization. The analytic performance of 8 estradiol immunoassays was evaluated. The imprecision and accuracy of the Access, ADVIA Centaur, ARCHITECT i2000, AutoDELFIA, Elecsys 2010, IMMULI... | Estradiol immunoassays | 2004 |
| 13 |  | Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L. | Performance characteristics of four automated natriuretic peptide assays | Measurement of circulating B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) can identify patients with heart failure and guide therapy. The limit of detection, linearity, imprecision, method comparison, analytic concordance, and reference intervals of the Access 2 BNP (Biosite, San... | Natriuretic peptide assays; BNP | 2005 |
| 14 |  | Jaskowski, Troy D. | Comparison of capillary zone and immunosubtraction with agarose gel and immunofixation electrophoresis for detecting and identifying monoclonal gammopathies | Capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) and immunosubtraction electrophoresis (ISE) were evaluated for ability to detect and immunotype monoclonal proteins, compared with agarose gel electrophoresis (AGE) and immunofixation electrophoresis (IFE), respectively. Six hundred seventeen serum samples wer... | Capillary zone electrophoresis; Immunosubtraction electrophoresis; CZE; ISE; Monoclonal protein electrophoresis; Serum protoin electrophoresis; Agarose gel; Dysproteinemias | 1999 |
| 15 |  | Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L. | Comparison of five automated serum and whole blood folate assays | Serum and whole blood folate measurements are used to establish folate deficiency. Most methods used in clinical laboratories are automated, nonisotopic methods that use folate-binding protein. Linearity, imprecision, and method comparison studies, including serum and whole blood hemolysates, wer... | Folate assays; Serum folate; Whole blood folate; Automated assays | 2003 |
| 16 |  | Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L. | Performance characteristics of four immunonephelometric assays for the quantitative determination of IgA and IgM in cerebrospinal fluid | Measurement of IgA and IgM in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) can be useful in the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis and other central nervous system disorders. The Dade Behring (Deerfield, IL) N Latex IgA and N Latex IgM tests on the BN II System and Beckman Coulter (Brea, CA) low-concentration IgA an... | IgA; IgM; Immunonephelometric assays; Imprecision; Method comparison; Reference interval | 2003 |
| 17 |  | Jaskowski, Troy D. | Determination of cytokine responses using a multiplexed fluorescent microsphere immunoassay | We used a multiplexed fluorescent microsphere immunoassay to develop a sandwich capture assay to assess simultaneously the production of thymus helper (TH) 1- and TH2-type cytokines in tissue culture supernatant obtained from stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells. The assay then was use... | Multiplexed fluorescent microsphere immunoassay | 2002 |
| 18 |  | Smith, A. Gordon; Singleton, J. Robinson | Lifestyle intervention for pre-diabetic neuropathy. | OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate intraepidermal nerve fiber density (IENFD) as a sensitive measure of neuropathy change in patients with neuropathy associated with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) receiving lifestyle intervention based on that used in the Diabetes Prevention Prog... | Older people; Biopsy; Blood Pressure; Body Mass Index; Cholesterol; Diabetic Diet | 2006-06-29 |
| 19 |  | Hymas, Weston C.; Hillyard, David R. | Description and validation of a novel real-time RT-PCR enterovirus assay | Enteroviruses are a leading cause of aseptic meningitis in adult and pediatric populations. We describe the development of a real-time RT-PCR assay that amplifies a small target in the 5' nontranslated region upstream of the classical Rotbart enterovirus amplicon. The assay includes an RNA internal ... | RT-PCR enterovirus assay; Rotbart enterovirus amplicon; Aseptic meningitis | 2008 |
| 20 |  | Erickson, J. Alan; Aldeen, William E.; Ashwood, Edward R. | Evaluation of a fecal pancreatic elastase-1 enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay: assessment versus an established assay and implication in classifying pancreatic function | Disagreement continues regarding the two commercially available fecal pancreatic elastase-1 (PE-1) ELISAs and their respective capabilities to assess pancreatic function. Our objectives were to validate the newer PE-1 ELISA and evaluate the test against the previously established assay, to investiga... | PE-1; pancreatic elastase-1; FDA; AMR; analytical measurement range; BioServ Diagnostics PE-1ELISA; ScheBo Biotech PE-1ELISA | 2005-09-25 |
| 21 |  | Mongia, Shella K.; Rawlins, Mindy, L.; Owen, William E.; Roberts, William L. | Performance characteristics of seven automated CA125 assays | Author manuscript. Cancer antigen 125 (CA125) is a high molecular mass glycoprotien, which is used as tumor marker to monitor disease progression, response to therapy and in early detection of recurrence after treatment for ovarian cancer. The Access 2, ADVIA Centaur, ARCHITECT i2000, AxSYM, Elecsys... | CA125 assays | 2005-08-29 |
| 22 |  | Cloud, Joann L.; Meyer, Jay J.; Pounder, June I.; Woods, Gail L. | Mycobacterium arupense sp. nov., a novel moderately growing nonchromogenic bacterium isolated from clinical specimens | This author manuscript discusses how several isolates of Mycobacterium species related to the M. terrae complex have been isolated from clinical samples. In the clinical microbiology laboratory, partial 16S rRNA gene sequencing (approximate first 500 base pairs) is often used to identify Mycobacteri... | Mycobacterium arupense; Mycobacterium nonchromogenicum; Mycobacterium terrae; Mycobacterium triviale; MCRO 6 | 2005-11-22 |
| 23 |  | Dwight, Zachary Lawrence | uMELT: prediction of high-resolution melting curves and dynamic melting profiles of PCR products in a rich web application | uMeltSM is a flexible web-based tool for predicting DNA melting curves and denaturation profiles of PCR products. The user defines an amplicon sequence and chooses a set of thermodynamic and experimental parameters that include nearest-neighbor stacking energies, loop entropy effects, cation (mono... | | 2011 |
| 24 |  | Jaskowski, Troy D. | Polymerase chain reaction detection of Lyme disease: correlation with clinical manifestations and serologic responses | The Author's have developed a simple, nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay for amplification of an outer surface protein A (OspA) gene fragment of Borrelia burgdorferi using rapid temperature cycling and ethidium bromide detection on agarose gels, and applied it to the diagnosis of Lyme dis... | PCR; Rapid cycle amplification | 1996 |
| 25 |  | Dwight, Zachary Lawrence | Laboratory driven, lean-to-adaptive prototyping in Parallel for Web software project identification and application development in health science research | Clinical research laboratories, bioinformatics core facilities, and health science organizations often rely on heavy planning based software development models to propose, build, and distribute software as a consumable product. Projects in non-agile software life cycles tend to have rigid ?plan-desi... | | 2012 |
