4 results for “General Electric”
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Medical study · Medical research · 2018
Glypican-1 immunohistochemistry does not separate mesothelioma from pulmonary adenocarcinoma
This laboratory study from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada tested whether a tissue stain for a protein called glypican-1 could help pathologists tell pleural mesothelioma apart from pulmonary (lung) adenocarcinoma. These two cancers can look…
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Medical study · Medical research · 2020
Usefulness of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase and BRCA-associated protein 1 immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma in effusion cytology specimens
This retrospective study, using cases from Vancouver General Hospital in Canada and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, asked whether a laboratory stain for a protein called MTAP helps tell malignant mesothelioma apart from harmless (reactive…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1980
Asbestos bodies
…protein coat. They cited their own separate analysis, which examined the cores of over 600 bodies from more than 80 patients in the general population and found that the cores were asbestos. In that analysis, 98…
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Medical study · Medical research · 1981
Asbestos and other ferruginous bodies: their formation and clinical significance
…with asbestos. At the highest levels of exposure, numbers of asbestos bodies correlate in a general way with the presence of asbestosis, although no precise value has been determined above which asbestosis is always found. In…