Mayo Clinic Laboratory and pathology research roundup: April 19

By Samantha Rossi • April 19, 2022

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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

Brain charts for the human lifespan.

Over the past few decades, neuroimaging has become a ubiquitous tool in basic research and clinical studies of the human brain. However, no reference standards currently exist to quantify individual differences in neuroimaging metrics over time, in contrast to growth charts for anthropometric traits such as height and weight¹. Here we assemble an interactive open resource to benchmark brain morphology derived from any current or future sample of MRI data ( http://www.brainchart.io/ ). 

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Published to PubMed This Week

• Comparison of CSF phosphorylated tau 181 and 217 for cognitive decline.
  Alzheimers and Dementia
• Detection of Alzheimer's disease amyloid beta 1-42, p-tau, and t-tau assays.
  Alzheimers and Dementia
• Political Campaign Contributions of Surgeons in the United States Throughout the 2020 Election Cycle.
  JAMA surgery
• Core-binding factor acute myeloid leukemia: long-term outcome of 70 patients uniformly treated with "7+3".
  Blood Cancer Journal
• Inequities in therapy for infantile spasms: a call to action.
  Annals of Neurology
• High-Resolution Mass Spectrometry for the Measurement of PTH and PTH Fragments: Insights into PTH Physiology and Bioactivity.
  Journal of American Society of Nephrology
• Envisioning Future Urinary Tract Infection Diagnostics.
  Clinical Infectious Diseases
• Multidisciplinary Controlled Substance Advisory Group Provides Support to the Primary Care Provider.
  Mayo Clinic Proceedings
• T2* reduction in patients with acute post-traumatic headache.
  Cephalalgia
• Risk of Venous Thromboembolism after COVID-19 Vaccination.
  Journal of Molecular Diagnosis

Samantha Rossi

Samantha Rossi is a Digital Marketing Manager at Mayo Clinic Laboratories. She supports marketing strategies for product management and specialty testing. Samantha has worked at Mayo Clinic since 2019.