1、What is Preeclampsia? Preeclampsia, is a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy that can cause systemic multi-organ damage to pregnant women, which is mainly manifested as hypertension and high protein in the urine (systolic blood pressure ≥ 140mmHg, diastolic blood pressure ≥90mmHg) and high protein in the urine (0.3g/24h). It is one of the leading causes of maternal death, preterm birth, neo...
1. Understanding Thyroid Function A normal thyroid gland is important for the body's growth, behavior, and psychological and neurological development. The main function of the thyroid gland is to produce, store, and secrete thyroid hormones (TH), including thyroxine (T4) and triiodothyronine (T3), and is regulated by the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis. TH has a role in regulating mood, brain ...
1. How can vitamin D deficiency impact overall well-being? ♣ Vitamin D deficiency rickets (nutritional rickets) Vitamin D deficiency during childhood can lead to rickets in children, causing growth delays and skeletal deformities. Essentially, Vitamin D deficiency rickets is a form of osteomalacia. The onset of this condition is gradual, often occurring in infants between the ages of 3 month...
♣ Vitamin B12, also known as adenosylcobalamin or cyanocobalamin, is an essential water-soluble vitamin. It plays a key role in the body, including maintaining the normal function of the nervous system, promoting the production of red blood cells, and supporting DNA synthesis. The main difference between active B12 and B12 lies in their chemical forms and bioavailability. 1. Chemical form: B...
Cytokines are small molecule polypeptides or glycoproteins secreted by a variety of cells that play an important role in the development, differentiation and functional regulation of immune cells, and the autoregulatory network of the body's immune function system depends on the balance of pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. 1. Systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis Systemic juv...
As an important bioactive substance, the role and power of cytokines in the human body have been widely recognized. From infectious diseases and hematology to oncology, the application of cytokines has demonstrated its powerful monitoring and therapeutic potential. In gynecological clinical practice, cytokine detection is an important auxiliary diagnostic tool, which helps doctors evaluate the imm...
POCT is indeed an important direction for the future development of the IVD industry and has broad prospects. Let me elaborate on the advantages and development trends of POCT for you: 1. Efficient and convenient detection mode POCT adopts a distributed, real-time detection mode, similar to the resource allocation method of online car-hailing, which greatly improves the detection efficiency and re...
In the first two issues of popular science, the mainstream chemiluminescence technology in immunodiagnosis was introduced, and it was also understood that chemiluminescence is divided into homogeneous chemiluminescence and heterogeneous chemiluminescence according to whether separation and cleaning steps are required. Compared with the traditional heterogeneous immunoassay mode, homogeneous chemil...