Determination of serum visinin like protein-1 and its potential for the diagnosis of brain injury due to the stroke: a pilot study.

Background: The current diagnosis of stroke relies on clinical examination by a physician supplemented by various neuroimaging techniques. A single set or multiple sets of blood biomarkers that could be used in acute settings to diagnosis stroke, differentiate between stroke types, and ideally predict an initial/recurring stroke would be extremely valuable. The diagnosis of stroke is currently hampered by delay due to lack of a suitable tool for rapid, accurate and analytically sensitive biomarker - based testing.

Collagenous repeat-containing sequence of 26 kDa protein - a newly discovered adipokine - sensu lato - A minireview.

Background: Increasing evidence from numerous research studies in internal medicine shows that adipocytes and adipokines are involved in primary inflammatory processes and disease. CORS-26 (collagenous repeat- containing sequence of 26 kDa protein) is a newly discovered adipokine of the C1q/TNF molecular superfamily C1q/TNF-related protein-3 (CTRP-3) secreted, inter alia in murine monocytes and adipocytes and in human adipocytes. Reported recently as a gene product of adipocyte differentiation, it shares structural similarity with the adipocyte, adiponectin.