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It is well known that kidney injuries can tend to accom­pany many severe illness­es such as cardiac diseas­es, trauma and sepsis, and is an increasingly common and devastating compli­cation in hospitalized pa­tients. Despite improve­ments in health outcomes in many areas during recent years, mortality and morbidity rates asso­ciated with acute kidney injury (AKI) remain very … Read more →

Acute phase proteins (APPs) constitute a group of proteins whose blood concentration changes rapidly in response to stressors such as infection and tissue damage. C-reactive protein (CRP) is a representative APP with synthesis in hepatocytes greatly increasing during systemic inflammation and in various disorders including viral and bacterial infections, sepsis and surgical trauma (1-3). Advanced … Read more →

Advanced ImmunoChemical, Inc. offers 5 different high quality monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) for the detection of caliciviruses. The antibodies were developed using feline calicivirus (FCV) and rabbit hemorrhagic disease virus (RHDV) as immunogens in order to obtain antibodies that would detect the most common epitopes of different caliciviruses. All MAbs detect human norovirus, feline calicivirus and … Read more →

Urine retinol-binding protein4 (RBP4), a carrier protein for vitamin A in plasma, is arguably the most sensitive biomarker of human proximal renal tubular function known. Advanced ImmunoChemical is pleased to offer anti-human RBP4 monoclonal antibodies, as well as purified endogenous RBP4 for quantitative detection of circulating RBP4. Urine RBP4 AssayNotes and product information. Impaired tubule … Read more →