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Cancer Lett
; 247(2): 301-8, 2007 Mar 18.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-16793202
RESUMO
We have previously used agarose gel electrophoresis and immunoblotting to qualitatively measure serum MUC5AC mucin for diagnosing cholangiocarcinoma. In this study, we developed a quantitative determination of serum MUC5AC by sandwich ELISA using MUC5AC mucin monoclonal antibody and soybean agglutinin. A cut-off value of the absorbance 0.074 was obtained from a complete statistical Receiver Operating Characteristic curves with an area under the curve=0.8141. The assay could discriminate cholangiocarcinoma patients from the controls with 71% sensitivity and 90% specificity. The test is simple to perform, reproducible, and probably used for detecting cholangiocarcinoma in a high-risk group or suspected patients.