Disease Diagnostics Using Proteomic Patterns

This biomedical infographic sample was designed on the base of figure 1 "Disease diagnostics using proteomic patterns" from the article "Cancer diagnosis using proteomic patterns" by Thomas P. Conrads et al., Expert Rev. Mol. Diagn. 3(4), 411–420 (2003). "The sample drawn from the patient is applied to a protein chip which is made up of a specific chromatographic surface. After several washing steps and the application of an energy-absorbing molecule, the species that are retained on the surface of the chip are analyzed via mass spectrometry. The pattern of peaks within the spectrum is an alyzed using sophisticated bioinformatic software to diagnose the source of the biological sample. m/z: Mass to charge ratio; SELDI-TOF MS: Surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry." [home.ccr.cancer.gov/ncifdaproteomics/pdf/ermd.pdf] The healthcare infographic example "Disease Diagnostics Using Proteomic Patterns" was designed using ConceptDraw PRO software extended with Biomedicine solution from Health area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.