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JOURNAL OF BIOPHOTONICS
Volume 7, Issue 3-4, Pages 222-231Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/jbio.201300183
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hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC); liver cirrhosis; FTIR microspectroscopy; blood serum
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FTIR microspectroscopy was applied for studying macromolecular changes in human serum samples from patients with healthy livers, and those diagnosed with liver cirrhosis or hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Our study demonstrated that the serum samples from HCC and cirrhotic patients could readily be discriminated from those from healthy controls based on macromolecular differences related to their lipid and protein structure. Spectral changes appeared to indicate that the secondary structure of protein from HCC sample groups contained a more distinctive -sheet structure and a lower lipid content compared to samples from the healthy and cirrhosis group. This was correlated with measurements of large decreases in albumin levels in serum from diseased patients. We argue that this technique shows potential as a simple, rapid, inexpensive, and non-subjective methodology for the screening patients suspected of liver disease. ((c) 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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