The road to reliable peptide assays is paved with good guidelines

Commentary on “The road to reliable peptide assays is paved with good guidelines”

“…We note that Maurer et al, in their correspondence, 1 have raised some concerns about the preanalytical and analytical validation of the peptide YY (PYY) assay described in our paper ‘The postprandial secretion of peptide YY 1 –36 and 3 –36 in obesity is differentially increased after gastric bypass versus sleeve gastrectomy’ 2 . The validation and assay characteristics were not the primary objectives of the paper.…”

Neuropeptide Y and Derivates Are Not Ready for Prime Time in Prostate Cancer Early Detection

“…1 ). The innovative sample preparation was adapted from our previously published work [6] , [7] , [8] . We conducted a single-center study to evaluate whether NPYs help identify significant PCa at an early stage.…”