Mayo Clinic laboratory and pathology research roundup: December 28

The research roundup provides an overview of the past week’s research from Mayo Clinic Laboratories consultants, including featured abstracts and a complete list of published studies and reviews.
Featured Abstract
Improving accuracy of myasthenia gravis autoantibody testing by reflex algorithm.
Myasthenia gravis (MG) serologic tests with confirmatory or refuting clinical-electrodiagnostic (EDX) testing and cancer evaluations were reviewed over 4 years (2012-2015). All patients had acetylcholine receptor-binding (AChR-Bi), modulating (AChR-Mo), and striational (STR) autoantibody testing, and negatives reflexed to muscle-specific kinase (MuSK). Thymoma and cancer occurrences were correlated with STR and reflexed glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65), ganglionic acetylcholine receptor (α3), collapsin response mediating protein-5, and voltage-gated potassium channel complex autoantibodies. Via Neurology
Published to PubMed This Week
- A Broad-Based Submucosal Polyp.
Gastroenterology - Decrease in Enteroviral Meningitis - An Unexpected Benefit of COVID-19 Mitigation?
Clinical Infectious Disease - Prognostic variables in low and high risk stage III colon cancers treated in two adjuvant chemotherapy trials.
European Journal of Cancer - Progesterone receptor isoform-dependent cross-talk between prolactin and fatty acid synthase in breast cancer.
Aging - Novel methylated DNA markers accurately discriminate Lynch syndrome associated colorectal neoplasia.
Epigenoimics - Multicenter Evaluation of the Unyvero Platform for Testing Bronchoalveolar Lavage Fluid.
Journal of Clinical Microbiology - Measurement of apolipoprotein B levels helps in the identification of patients at risk for hypertriglyceridemic pancreatitis.
Journal of Clinical Lipidology - Influence of primary payer status on the management and outcomes of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the United States.
PLoS One - Cytoplasmic Expression of CD3ε Heterodimers by Flow Cytometry Rapidly Distinguishes Between Mature T-Cell and Natural Killer-Cell Neoplasms.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology - An In Silico Exploration of the Factors That Affect the Precision of the Bethesda Assay.
American Journal of Clinical Pathology