Among 119 of 695 consecutive patients resected for CLM who fulfilled the inclusion criteria, serial CEA and CA19.9 were available in 113 and 68 patients, respectively.
Consistent with other reports, the inclusion of serial sections increased the likelihood of detecting micrometastasis.
DVT was detected by ultrasonography with color Doppler imaging performed within 48 hours after the patients met the inclusion criteria, and serial studies at days 7, 14 and 28 (or earlier if clinically indicated) were carried out.
EBs were purified from Urografin gradients as previously described [31] and their infectivity was evaluated by serial titration and staining of inclusions using an in-house monoclonal antibody specific to chlamydial LPS (Mab29) [32].
After inclusion in the study, serial clinical, neuromuscular biopsy and electromyographic analyses were systematically conducted.
In order to minimize artifacts relating to variations in cutting angle, axonal lengths, for both supra- and infragranular regions, were quantified in as many adjacent serial sections as met the above inclusion criteria.
The regression approach to time series prediction attempts to model the serial autocorrelation in the data through the inclusion of autoregressive terms and/or sine and cosine functions for seasonality.
For three weeks, investigators say, they killed -- callously, wantonly, ceaselessly, driven by a logic known only to themselves -- and thus qualified themselves for inclusion in the macabre fraternity of the serial killer.
The Antp and Antp-p21 proteins were expressed as insoluble inclusion bodies and refolded by denaturation and serial dialysis as described in the supplementary methods.
In a subsequent prospective study, serial plasma samples from 120 children who met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were assayed for NGAL using the Triage® device to assess its ability to predict AKI and other adverse outcomes.
