My Clinical Research Laboratory provides laboratory testing in support of clinical trials and/or diagnostic company-sponsored method/instrument evaluations. This service is available to both UT and non-UT investigators who have a need for high quality, cost competitive laboratory testing for a wide range of analytes in support of their clinical studies.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Method/Instrument Evaluations
Group-specific Component (Gc) Protein in Acute Liver Failure
Role of Prostate-specific Antigen (PSA) in Prostate Cancer
Biochemical Markers of Fetal Neural Tube Defects and Aneuploidies
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Hussey SM, Wians FH Jr, "Shortness of breath in a 74 year-old woman" Laboratory Medicine, In press May 2004
Monte S. Willis and Frank H. Wians, Jr., "The role of nutrition in preventing prostate cancer: a review of the proposed mechanism of action of various dietary substances" Clinica Chimica Acta, 1-2/328:1-27, February 2003
Sokoll LJ, Wians FH Jr, Remaley AT, "Rapid intraoperative immunoassay of PTH and other hormones: a new paradigm for point-of-care testing" Clinical Chemistry, in press Summer 2004
Yost NP, McIntire DD, Wians FH Jr, Ramin SM, Balko JA, Leveno KJ, "A randomized placebo-controlled trial of corticosteroids for hyperemesis due to pregnancy" Obstet and Gynecol, 1250--1254, 2003
Shariat SF, Zippe C. Ludecke G, Boman H, Sanchez-Carbayo M, Casella R, Mian C, Friedrich MG, Rissa S, Wians FH Jr, et al., "Nomograms including nuclear matrix protein 22 for prediction of disease recurrence and progression in patients with Ta, T1, Tis transtional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder" Eur Urol, 304-131, 2004
SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS
Wians FH Jr, Balko JA, Hsu RM, Byrd W, Snyder WH, "Intraoperative vs central laboratory PTH testing during parathyroidectomy surgery" Laboratory Medicine, 11/31:616-621, November 2000
Wang S, Saboorian MH, Frenkel EP, Haley BB, Siddiqui MT, Gokaslan S, Wians FH Jr, Hynan L, Ashfaq R, "Assessment of HER-2/neu status in breast cancer: Automated Cellular Imaging System (ACIS)-assisted quantitation of immunhistochemical assay achieves high accuracy in comparison with fluorescence in situ hybridization assay as the standard" American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 4/116:495-503, October 2001
Wians FH Jr, Urban JE, Keffer JH, Kroft SH, "Discriminating between iron deficiency anemia and anemia of chronic disease using traditional indices of iron status vs transferrin receptor concentration" American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 115:112-118, 2001
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