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    Research and Development, Production, and Application Status of Quality Controls for in Vitro Diagnostic Reagents

    As per requirements of ISO15189 Medical Laboratories-Requirements for Quality and Competence (2012), clinical laboratories providing medical laboratory services should meet the basic requirements of quality manag...

    Junli Zu, Jian Zhang, Gongcheng Liu in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Electrolyte Technologies

    The solutes of human body fluids can be chemically divided into electrolytes and non-electrolytes. Electrolytes usually refer to potassium (K+), sodium (Na+), chloride (Cl), calcium (Ca++), lithium (Li+), magnes...

    Jiandong Wang, **aolong Wang, Hui Xu, Dali Dai in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    ELISA Immunological Reagents

    Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has experienced vigorous development for nearly 50 years since it was proposed in 1971. At present, the common detection methods of ELISA immunoreagents include double...

    Chao Chen, Yuming Ji, Jianfang Liu, Haifeng Shi in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Tumor Markers

    Tumor markers are substances that reflect the existence of tumors. They do not exist in normal adult tissues but only in embryonic tissues; their content in tumor tissues is much higher than in normal tissues....

    Zhiyu Cai, Ye Sheng, Li Zhu, Jianer Yao, Wei Deng in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Clinical Chemistry Laboratory Automation

    Total laboratory automation (TLA) refers to the integration of different testing platforms, pre-analysis, and post-analysis sample processing modules through automated transmission tracks and information netwo...

    Wei Qin, Jianmei Zhang, Ye Sheng, Jianer Yao in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Development and Application Status of National Reference Materials for in Vitro Diagnostic Reagents

    In vitro diagnosis refers to the activity of analyzing and testing samples (blood, body fluids, tissues, etc.) taken from a human body by means of chemical, physical, or biological analysis, so as to evaluate ...

    Jian Zhang, Junli Zu, Gongcheng Liu in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Analysis of Blood Gas

    Analysis of blood gas has recently been a rapidly developed medical inspection technique. At the end of the 1950s, Poul Astrup, a Danish physician, and chemist, developed the first blood gas analyzer. Since th...

    Lili Chen, Wenguang Tan, Min Yang, Ziyan Luo in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Investment, Financing, and Merger of Listed Companies in 2021

    With the increasing trend of the aging population in China and the growth of per capita medical expenditure and technological progress, the growth rate of in vitro diagnostic (IVD) field in China has remained ...

    Xunzhi Su, Lei Wang, Jianmeng Cao in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Performance of Listed Companies in 2021

    After the initial period in the 1980s, the development period in 1990s, and the high-speed development period since the twenty-first century, the in vitro diagnostic (IVD) industry has grown into a complete ra...

    Xunzhi Su, Lei Wang, Jianmeng Cao in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Urine

    The major brands in China’s urinalysis market are URIT, DIRUI, AVE, etc. URIT produced China’s first urine analyzer in 1984. And after nearly 40 years’ strenuous cultivation, it pioneered the modular urine ana...

    Jun Jiang, Chuanjun Su, Kun Wang, Yongqing Zhou in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Companion Diagnostics

    Companion diagnostics (CDx), as a sub-field of in vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry, complements targeted therapy and is a necessary tool to achieve precision medicine. CDx mainly provides patients with the inf...

    Chengbo Fu, Yan Jiang, Yile Sun, Yuqing Tang in In Vitro Diagnostic Industry in China (2023)

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    Pancreatic Resection for Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasms

    Pancreatic solid pseudopapillary neoplasms (SPNs) are rare and relatively benign tumors, with a malignancy ratio of 10–15%. The utility of multiple imaging modalities, combining with age and gender profile, is...

    Wenming Wu, Qiang Xu, Rui Jiang in The IASGO Textbook of Multi-Disciplinary M… (2022)

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    Stemness Regulation of Somatic Cancer Cells

    Embryonic stem (ES) cells derive from the inner cell mass (ICM) of the blastocyst in early embryo stage, which lasts only a few days during the life. Soon after the blastocyst implants in endometrium, ICM cell...

    Zhenhe Suo, Jian-Guo Wen, Jahn M. Nesland in Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 11 (2014)

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    Validity of Markers for Epithelial Cells and Mesenchymal Cells

    Stem cells are best known for their potential of differentiation. However, those so-called differentiated cells are not exactly lack of plasticity. This can be easily seen during wound healing, in which a lot ...

    Jianyuan Chai in Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 10 (2013)

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    Generation of Antigen-Specific T Lymphocytes from Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for Adoptive Immunotherapy

    Conquering cancer, one of the leading human health problems, is a major task for both basic and clinical scientists. With the understanding of recently developed cancer immunotherapy, in particular the cytotox...

    Fengyang Lei, Rizwanul Haque, **aofang **ong in Stem Cells and Cancer Stem Cells, Volume 10 (2013)

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    Marine Natural Products and their Synthetic Derivatives for Cancer Therapy

    The ocean, which covers approximately 70% of the Earth’s surface, is a natural treasury of resources that houses about 80% of all the varieties of life on our planet. The past 20 years have seen a decrease in ...

    Tao Jiang, Puyong Zhang, Shaopeng Chen in Alternative and Complementary Therapies fo… (2010)

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    Mining Natural Product-Derived Molecules Against Cancer Targets: The Case of the Androgen Receptor in Prostate Cancer

    Androgen receptor (AR) signaling is critical for prostate cancer progression. This has provided the rationale for the use of androgen ablation therapy, involving either surgical or chemical castration, to redu...

    Jian Hui Wu in Alternative and Complementary Therapies for Cancer (2010)