Circulating calprotectin has emerged as a sensitive and clinically valuable biomarker reflecting inflammatory activity across ...

Zinc sits at the heart of many bacterial enzymes, so one of our immune system's simplest defenses is to keep zinc out of reach. Calprotectin, a neutrophil protein abundant at infection sites, is ...

Questions on fecal calprotectin's usefulness as a measure of intestinal inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) dominated the viewer chat after the opening session of Advances in Inflammatory ...

A calprotectin stool test detects levels of calprotectin in stool. This protein indicates bowel inflammation. It can help diagnose and monitor conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). A ...

Accumulating evidence suggests that the immune system plays a crucial role in the emergence of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease – a condition where fatty deposits, also known as plaque, ...

This prospective study in a large cohort of patients examined the use of calprotectin measurement in feces as a diagnostic test to identify clinically significant gastrointestinal findings in patients ...

Several faecal calprotectin tests are available to the NHS in England, including fully quantitative laboratory-based technologies (many of which use an enzyme‑linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA] ...