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    A pipeline for the fully automated estimation of continuous reference intervals using real-world data

    Reference intervals are essential for interpreting laboratory test results. Continuous reference intervals precisely capture physiological age-specific dynamics that occur throughout life, and thus have the po...

    Tatjana Ammer, André Schützenmeister, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modeling of maintenance therapy for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia

    In the treatment of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), current protocols combine initial high-dose multiagent chemotherapy with prolonged oral therapy with 6-mercaptopurine (6MP) and low-dose methot...

    Anna Gebhard, Patrick Lilienthal, Markus Metzler, Manfred Rauh in Scientific Reports (2023)

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    Influence of Turkish origin on hematology reference intervals in the German population

    Reference intervals for laboratory test results have to be appropriate for the population in which they are used to be clinically useful. While sex and age are established partitioning criteria, patients’ orig...

    Franz X. Mayr, Alexander Bertram, Holger Cario, Michael C. Frühwald in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    refineR: A Novel Algorithm for Reference Interval Estimation from Real-World Data

    Reference intervals are essential for the interpretation of laboratory test results in medicine. We propose a novel indirect approach to estimate reference intervals from real-world data as an alternative to d...

    Tatjana Ammer, André Schützenmeister, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch in Scientific Reports (2021)

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    Reference Interval Estimation from Mixed Distributions using Truncation Points and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov Distance (kosmic)

    Appropriate reference intervals are essential when using laboratory test results to guide medical decisions. Conventional approaches for the establishment of reference intervals rely on large samples from heal...

    Jakob Zierk, Farhad Arzideh, Lorenz A. Kapsner, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Histone deacetylases inhibition by SAHA/Vorinostat normalizes the glioma microenvironment via xCT equilibration

    Malignant gliomas are characterized by neurodegenerative actions leading to the destruction of surrounding brain parenchyma. The disturbance in glutamate homeostasis caused by increased expression of the gluta...

    Ines M. L. Wolf, Zheng Fan, Manfred Rauh, Sebastian Seufert in Scientific Reports (2014)