Ideally, these advances could provide with biomarkers that are clinically applicable for disease diagnosis and/ or prognosis.
Khalidi makes no reference to the adaptive value of innate traits, and like Stich he thinks that the idea of innateness should be applicable to disease phenotypes as well as to functional phenotypes (Khalidi 2007, 97).
NA, not applicable; DMARD, disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug.
This specific profile should be identified to determine the specific pathophysiology of the neoplastic process, which could be potentially applicable in disease prevention, diagnosis, and therapy.
It is believed that in the future fullerenes will be applicable for disease diagnosis, as artificial vectors for transinfection (Nakamura et al. 2000), and for pinpoint drug delivery targeted at specific sites in the body (Nakamura and Isobe 2003).
Novel technologies are being integrated into environmental health research and are also applicable to disease research, but these advances need a new medical research and drug discovery paradigm to gain maximal benefits.
This indicates that collagen degradation and release of fragments to the circulation is an ongoing event in many types of cancer, and that collagen degradation markers may be applicable to disease monitoring in several cancer types.
Diabetes and CVD treatment is complex: besides the different applicable agents, disease status, comorbidities, self-management capabilities and individual compliance of patients have to be considered by the treating physicians [ 5, 6].
These types of treatment are only applicable to disease of macroscopic dimensions, so once we are dealing with sub-millimetre metastases, localisation may become unimportant and only detection is needed to allow systemic or regional chemo- or immuno-therapy.
