the aim of the clinical laboratory in endocrine disease diagnosis and management is detecting either the hormones or their downstream reaction metabolites or some other related substances. in the case of hormone measurement almost all the routine methods are based on immunoassay with different labels (radioimmunoassay, enzyme linked immunosorbant assay, chemiluminescence assays …) and different...

direct agglutination test (dat) is a sensitive and simple method, which is applicable in field and unequipped laboratories. in order to evaluate dat in the diagnosis of toxoplasma infections, the antigen was prepared in the protozoology unit, school of public health and it was used in the following studies. a- 251 serum samples collected from suspected toxoplasmosis out-patients were examined f...

In number (16 of 22) of infants in the Dutch laboratory rabbit breeding colony, in aged 45-65 days old, hair loss (alopecia) seen at the top of the head and around a week after the hair fall, was created in a state of complete alopecia. For determination of the cause of hair loss, after the observation and palpation the alopecic area, there have not been any swelling, abscesses, tumors. In skin...

currently, different highly sensitive nucleic acid detection-based protocols used in medical diagnostic laboratories need specific working conditions, and if no optimization is performed, misleading results can be obtained. limitations of each protocol is different in obtaining an appropriate result. awareness of these limitations plays an important role in providing a reliable result for physi...

introduction: there is not much data on parasitic infections of laboratory animals that are kept in conventional conditions in iran. the present study was designed to investigate intestinal helminths infections in laboratory colonies of rats and mice. methods: droppings from 110 mice and 110 rats (each animal one dropping) belonging to experimental and breeding groups in four animal houses were...

background : medical laboratory plays a critical role in maintaining and promoting health. increasing wide applications of laboratory medicine in clinical practice have highlighted specific topics in the areas of social, professional and ethical issues in the laboratory. despite the important role of clinical lab in health system, ethical issues have been rarely discussed for clinical labs. con...

in order to determine the prevalence, incidence and odd ratio of hbv, 681 serum samples were collected from 54 laboratory personnel in tehran in both private and governmental sectors. the samples were tested for hbsag and ab using elisa technique. the results showed that the prevalence of hbsag and ab among clinical laboratory personnel was 2.3 and 20 percent respectively. the prevalence of hbs...