Gluten enteropathy( nontropical spruce, adult celiac disease, gluten disease, idiopathic steatorrhea) is a disease that is based on a deficiency of specific enzymes of the peptidase group in t...

Leukocyte formula - the percentage ratio of different types of leukocytes in the blood smear. Reference figures are shown in Table., From which it appears that during the neonatal cells ratio ...

Neutrophil granulocytes are characterized by the presence in the cytoplasm of granules of two types: azurophilic and specific, the contents of which allow these cells to perform their functions. ...

Reference values ​​of the concentration of cancer-embryonic Ag( CEA) in serum - 0-5 ng / ml;for those suffering from alcoholism - 7-10 ng / ml;for smokers - 5-10 ng / ml. The half-life is 14 d...

Reference values ​​CA 19-9 in blood serum - up to 37 IU / ml. Half-life is 5 days. CA 19-9 is a glycoprotein found in the fetal epithelium of the pancreas, stomach, liver, small and large ...

Reference values ​​of p-HG concentration in blood serum: adults - up to 5 IU / ml;at a pregnancy of 7-10 days - more than 15 IU / ml, 30 days - 100-5000 IU / ml, 10 weeks - 50 000-140 000 IU /...

Reference concentrations of b2-microglobulin: in serum - 660-2740 ng / ml, in urine - 3.8-251.8 ng / ml. Half-life is 40 minutes. b2-microglobulin is a low-molecular-weight protein of surf...

Specificity of tumor markers - the percentage of healthy individuals and patients with benign neoplasms, in which the test gives a negative result. Cancer sensitivity is the percentage of ...

At the heart of all serological reactions is the interaction of Ar and AT.Serological reactions are used in two ways. The first direction. Detection with the diagnostic purpose of AT in th...

DHEA - the main androgen( more precisely, their predecessor), produced by the adrenal glands. Most of the DHEA is rapidly modified by the addition of sulfate, about half of the DHEA is sulfate...

Reference values ​​of placental lactogen concentration: in men and non-pregnant women there is no serum;at pregnancy 5-38 weeks - 0,5-11 mkg / ml( 23-509 nmol / l). Placental lactogen or pl...

Reference serum PTH concentration in adults is 8-24 ng / l( RIA, N-terminal PTH);intact PTH molecule - 10-65 ng / l. PTH - a polypeptide consisting of 84 amino acid residues, is formed and sec...

Like the posterior lobe of the pituitary gland, the adrenal medulla is a derivative of the nerve tissue. It can be considered as a specialized sympathetic ganglion. Accumulations of chromaffin...

A. Pearse( 1969) formulated a theory about the presence in the body of a functionally active system of cells of neuroectoderm origin - APUD-systems( amine content, precursor uptake, decarboxyl...

Reference concentrations in blood plasma: adrenaline - 112-658 pg / ml;norepinephrine - less than 10 pg / ml. Adrenaline is the hormone of the adrenal medulla. From the adrenal medulla it ...

Reference values ​​of the concentration of pepsinogen I in serum are 28-100 μg / l( 28-100 ng / ml). The main cells of gastric glands synthesize and secrete pepsinogens, which are divided i...

Recently, the main complex of histocompatibility - HLA( Human Leukocyte Antigens) began to be considered as an important immunological marker of population genetics. Ag of this system is determin...

PCR is a new achievement in molecular genetics, used for DNA amplification and allows the rapid expansion of the specific DNA region( ie any gene of interest) in vitro more than 200,000 ti...