enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of questionable diagnostic tests - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_questionable...

    Barnes Basal Temperature Test; Breast thermography [4] Electro Physiological Feedback Xrroid (EPFX) [5] Electrodermal diagnostic devices [6] [7] (e.g. Vega machines, E-meters) Genetic tests for "reward deficiency syndrome" [8] Hair analysis [9] [10] IgG antibody testing for food intolerances and food allergies [7] [11] Live blood analysis [12]

  3. Food intolerance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_intolerance

    Food intolerance is a detrimental reaction, often delayed, to a food, beverage, food additive, or compound found in foods that produces symptoms in one or more body organs and systems, but generally refers to reactions other than food allergy. Food hypersensitivity is used to refer broadly to both food intolerances and food allergies.

  4. ALCAT test - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCAT_Test

    The antigen leukocyte antibody test (ALCAT test) is one that claims to measure adverse reactions to dietary substances. It was created by American Medical Testing Laboratories and is now marketed by Cell Science Systems (also known as ALCAT Diagnostic Systems) of Deerfield Beach, Florida .

  5. Typhidot - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhidot

    Typhidot is a medical test consisting of a dot ELISA kit [1] that detects IgM and IgG antibodies against the outer membrane protein (OMP) of the Salmonella typhi.The typhidot test becomes positive within 2–3 days of infection and separately identifies IgM and IgG antibodies.

  6. Immunoglobulin Y - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_Y

    In chickens, immunoglobulin Y is the functional equivalent to Immunoglobulin G (IgG). Like IgG, it is composed of two light and two heavy chains. Structurally, these two types of immunoglobulin differ primarily in the heavy chains, which in IgY have a molecular mass of about 65,100 atomic mass units (amu), and are thus larger than in IgG.

  7. Immunoglobulin G - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_G

    The water-accessible surface area of an IgG antibody. Immunoglobulin G (IgG) is a type of antibody. Representing approximately 75% of serum antibodies in humans, IgG is the most common type of antibody found in blood circulation. [1] IgG molecules are created and released by plasma B cells. Each IgG antibody has two paratopes.

  8. Test validity - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test_validity

    Test validity is the extent to which a test (such as a chemical, physical, or scholastic test) accurately measures what it is supposed to measure.In the fields of psychological testing and educational testing, "validity refers to the degree to which evidence and theory support the interpretations of test scores entailed by proposed uses of tests". [1]

  9. Nontreponemal tests for syphilis - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontreponemal_tests_for...

    Nontreponemal tests are screening tests, very rapid and relatively simple, but need to be confirmed by treponemal tests. [1] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-approved standard tests include the VDRL test (a slide test), the rapid plasma reagin (RPR) test (a card test), the unheated serum reagin (USR) test, and the toluidine red ...