Abstract: Disclosed are methods and compositions for monitoring, diagnosis, prognosis, and determination of treatment regimens in subjects suffering from or suspected of having a renal injury. In particular, disclosed are assays that detect one or more markers selected from the group consisting of Prostatic acid phosphatase, Lactotransfenin, Soluble erythropoietin receptor, Von Willebrand factor, Soluble endothelial protein C receptor, and Beta-2-glycoprotein 1 as diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in renal injuries.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the stratification of a subject having an acute or a chronic disease, wherein the disease affects endothelial function/dysfunction, comprising the steps of (i) taking a sample of bodily fluid from the subject; (ii) determining in the sample of bodily fluid the concentration of a vasoactive hormone or fragments thereof or precursors or fragments thereof having a length of at least 12 amino acid residues; (iii) stratifying the subjects into either of the categories: (a) responder to a medication for treatment of the disease, (b) non-responder to a medication for treatment of the disease not showing an unfavorable effect after having received the medication; (c) subjects showing an unfavorable effect after having received the medication. The invention also relates to the use of an antibody or a functional fragment thereof in the method according to the invention.

Abstract: Described herein are assays directed to determining the level of bioavailable or free vitamin D in a blood sample in a subject. The values determined for bioavailable or free vitamin D indicate whether the subject suffers from insufficient levels of vitamin D. Also described herein are methods of treatment for vitamin D insufficiency.

Abstract: The invention relates to biomarkers associated with Diabetes, including protein and lipid metabolite biomarkers, methods of using the biomarkers to determine the risk that an individual will develop Diabetes, and methods of screening a population to identify persons at risk for developing Diabetes and other pre-diabetic conditions.

Abstract: Provided herein are methods of diagnosis or of quantitation of fibrosis. An immunoassay is conducted to measure neo-epitope containing protein fragments of collagen type III, collagen type I, collagen type IV, collagen type V, or collagen type VI, elastin, biglycan, decorin, lumican, versican, perlecan, neurocan, brevican, fibromodulin, serglycin, syndecan, betaglycan, vimentin, or C-reactive protein naturally present in a biofluid sample obtained from a patient. An above normal elevation of the measured protein fragments in the patient is associated with the presence or extent of fibrosis.

Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of treating a subject with a population of target cells defined by the presence of a specific receptor molecule on the surface; wherein the population of target cells is isolated by a method of reversibly staining the target cells with a detectable label.

Abstract: Arteriosclerosis induces cerebral infarction and myocardial infarction. A multi-marker (a group of protein markers) that assesses the accurate pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis and enables the selection of an adequate treatment method for arteriosclerosis and prediction of the progression of arteriosclerosis, and an evaluation method for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of arteriosclerosis that uses said marker group as an indicator have been sought. The present invention relates to A method for evaluation of arteriosclerosis comprising the steps of (a) measuring the expression of von Willebrand factor and/or complement factor D in a sample derived from a subject, (b) measuring the expression of complement component C8 and/or vitamin K-dependent protein Z in the sample derived from the subject, and (c) evaluating arteriosclerosis in the subject on the basis of the results from (a) and (b).

Abstract: A method for identifying a subject being at risk for or having a chronic inflammatory disease, fibrillinopathy, atherosclerosis, or coronary artery disease is provided. The method may include determining the concentration of GrA and/or GrB in a blood or serum sample from said subject; and comparing the concentrations to the corresponding concentration in a control sample, wherein an elevated concentration of GrA and/or GrB may be indicative of a chronic inflammatory disease, fibrillinopathy, atherosclerosis, or coronary artery disease. The method may further include identifying concentrations of fibrinogen, elastin and/or fibrillin.

Abstract: The invention provides an assay and corresponding kit for assessing the delivery efficiency of a molecule into a eukaryotic cell (basic assay). The present invention also provides an assay and corresponding kit for assessing the inhibitory effect of a test molecule in relation to the before-mentioned basic assay.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods of evaluating a glycoprotein preparation for the absence, presence or amount of an N-acetylhexosamine glycan, e.g., an N-acetylglucosamine glycan.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the identification of biomarkers and groups or combinations of biomarkers that can be used for non-invasive diagnosis of intra-amniotic infection, and diagnostic assays using such biomarkers.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of immunology and hyperproliferative diseases. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method of detecting and monitoring therapeutic antibody:antigen complex, soluble antigen and soluble therapeutic antibody, wherein a patient has undergone at least one course of immunotherapy. Yet further, levels of therapeutic antibody:antigen complexes, soluble antigens or soluble therapeutic antibodies may be measured and used to stage or monitor a hyperproliferative disease.

Abstract: Described herein are analyte sensors with a tailored analyte binding motif that binds an analyte and a host protein operatively linked to the analyte binding motif, in which the binding of the analyte to the analyte binding motif produces a detectable change and manipulation of the analyte binding motif manipulates the responsiveness of the sensor. Also described herein are methods for constructing an analyte sensor by constructing a tailored analyte binding motif capable of responding to an analyte and operatively inserting the analyte binding motif into a host protein. Included is a method for quantifying an analyte by introducing a nucleotide sequence for a protein having an analyte sensor with a tailored analyte binding motif that is able to produce a detectable change upon excitation, expressing the protein, providing excitement to the analyte sensor, and quantifying the detectable change.

Abstract: Methods and systems for diagnosing or prognosing liver fibrosis in a subject are provided. In some examples, such methods and systems can include detecting liver fibrosis-related molecules in a sample obtained from the subject, comparing expression of the molecules in the sample to controls representing expression values expected in a subject who does not have liver fibrosis or who has non-progressing fibrosis, and diagnosing or prognosing liver fibrosis in the subject when differential expression of the molecules between the sample and the controls is detected. Kits for the diagnosis or prognosis of liver fibrosis in a subject are also provided which include reagents for detecting liver fibrosis related molecules.

Abstract: Subject of the present invention are assays and in vitro methods for prediction of the progression of primary chronic kidney disease (CKD) or for monitoring chronic kidney disease therapy comprising the determination of the level of ANP and/or ADM or its precursors or fragments thereof.

Abstract: Detection sequences of periostin having from 6 to 30 amino acids and which include all or part of peptide sequence SEQ ID No. 1, SEQ ID No. 2 or SEQ ID No. 3, or a homologous peptide sequence. Antibodies suitable for specifically recognizing minimally one of these detection sequences, including an anti-periostin antibody, are disclosed. Periostin detection and dosage processes and kits that use these antibodies are also disclosed. A periostin marker for early diagnosis, tracking and prognosis of pathologies that involve periostin, including benign osteolysis such as inflammatory diseases, including osteoarticular diseases, and malignant osteolysis, such as cancers with bone metastases, is provided.

Abstract: Subject of the present invention are assays and in vitro methods for the prediction of the risk of a subject for contracting metabolic syndrome and/or diabetes mellitus and for diagnosing metabolic syndrome, comprising determining the level of arginine vasopressin pro-hormone or fragments thereof in a sample of a subject.

Abstract: Methods, compositions, and kits for predicting whether a subject with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or at risk of developing COPD is likely to have progressive COPD are provided. Methods, compositions, and kits for predicting whether lung function is likely to decline in a subject with COPD or at risk for developing COPD are also provided.

Abstract: Diagnostics relating to C-type natriuretic and erythropoietin signal peptides and fragments, and kits, uses and applications therefor.

Abstract: A method of analyzing bone formation or determination of cell state with regard to differentiation of osteoblasts and/or fibroblasts in a subject is provided, the method comprising detecting PCPE isoforms in a biological sample from the subject; and comparing the PCPE isoforms from the sample of biological fluid with PCPE isoforms of a predetermined standard or a sample obtained from healthy individuals.