Tag: Antigen
PSA (prostate specific antigen)
Indications:
The dosage of the circulating antigen secreted by prostate glandular cells can detect a cancer, to assess the stage to follow the change.
Found in...
Carcinoembryonic Antigen (CEA)
Indications:
CEA (carcinoembryonic antigen) has an identity with an antigen of the mucous colic embryo, from which it takes its name, and is associated with...
CA 125 Antigen
Indications:
This is not a diagnostic test, the purpose to review the monitoring of epithelial ovarian cancer.
Principle:
A monoclonal antibody allows to highlight an antigen not...
Antigen CA 19.9
Indications:
CA 19.9 is a circulating antigen associated with gastrointestinal cancer, especially the pancreas and colon.
Principle:
This is detected in the serum antigen not normally present...
Antigen CA 15.3
Indications:
The blood test CA 15.3 is useful in the effective control of an antitumor treatment.
Principle:
Circulating antigen, CA 15-3 is associated with breast cancer: it...
Cells involved in the immune response
A- Introduction:
Most immune cells are hematopoietic d`origine.
Hematopoiesis occurs in the bone marrow.
Hematopoiesis is characterized by sequential stages of differentiation defined by phenotypic expression of...
