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For instance, despite showing elevated transcript levels in ccRCC, caldesmon showed little expression in any of the epithelial cancers but was highly specific for angiomyolipoma.

The CIHI ICD-10-CA definition had a moderate Sn of 46.4% and NPV of 54.7%, but was highly specific (98.7%) with a PPV of 98.2%.

Antigen assays currently in use employ monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) raised against T. saginata, which have known cross reactivity to animal cestodes but are highly specific in human samples.

m36 has very small size (∼15 kDa) but is highly specific and is likely to be safe in long-term use thus representing a novel class of potentially promising HIV-1 inhibitors.

The PCR-based analysis of HHV-6 TRS has a limited sensitivity but is highly specific, which provides the opportunity to include it in the set of molecular tools dedicated to the study of HHV-6 epidemiology.

Recent studies have shown that this blood assay has a moderate sensitivity for the detection of latent tuberculosis infection in the range of 70 80%, but is highly specific (over 95%) as compared with the TST even in BCG-vaccinated patients with varying risks of infection with M tuberculosis or active tuberculosis [8], [10].

Competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay showed the unique difference in the specificity between the two similar antibodies: mAb14A2 recognized several quercetin-3-glycosides including Q3G and rutin but mAb11G6 was highly specific to the Q3G structure.

It is noted that endoscopic appearance was not sensitive, but it was highly specific to diagnose pathologic atrophy, moreover, the PLR of endoscopic appearance for pathologic atrophy was 4.78 (95% CI: 4.33 - 5.28), suggesting patients with endoscopic atrophic appearance were more likely to have pathologic atrophy.

Reversibility was highly specific but poorly sensitive for the diagnosis of asthma.

A meta-analysis on 33 studies of 6393 patients showed that computed tomography (CT) colography was highly specific, but its sensitivity was heterogeneous [ 18].

Our results also showed that the killing of cancer cells but not normal cells by RGE was highly specific.