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Also known as: GPC

Gastric parietal cell antibodies (GPC) are directed against a parietal cell enzyme, the H+K+ATPase. The auto-antibody is found at high frequency in association with autoimmune gastritis and a proportion of these patients will progress to develop pernicious anaemia. Gastric parietal cell antibodies are present in over 90% of patients with pernicious anaemia (Highly sensitive, but not specific).

GPC antibodies should be looked for in:

Heparin preferred, serum can be used - 2ml

Price on application

10-14 days

Indirect Immunoflourescence

Positive or Negative

Intrinsic Factor Antibodies

2 months at 2-8ºC

Ambient temperature and first class post. Hays DX users please enquire via email below.

Ambient temperature if courier will deliver within 72 hours otherwise consider refrigerated transport. Freezing is not a requirement.

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For further information, email immunology.office@nhs.net

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Virtual money and real pollution.

The Greek word for "hidden" is "crypto", which is the digital currency of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies are mined from the virtual world, just like precious metal.

There are 21 million bitcoins, of which more than 19 million have already been mined, and the amount is limited.

In the search for gold, miners carry out tastings on the ground to find a vein. The terrain is a huge math block puzzle and the catas are millions of computer calculations. Coins are mined by solving equations.

Computing power is needed to solve the puzzles behind the coin. The hidden coin was invented in 2008 by a group of programmers under the name of Satoshi Nakamoto.

Someone who deciphers a block and adds it to the chain extracts the currency. The rest of the miners issued the certificate that attests to the extraction and ownership of the currency.

A network of millions of computers is needed to mine cryptocurrencies. The more computers a miner has, the more chance they have to mine. It would be the difference between a tunnel boring machine and a pickaxe.

In recent years, the so-called mining farms have become installations with hundreds of computers working in a network and consuming energy.

More power than Austria or Portugal.

It is known that the processes to generate this coin involve an intensive use of energy, but the extent of the climate damage caused by it is not clear.

It was a question of calculating the financial damage caused by the CO2 emissions necessary to extract the currency and the impact on the economy of the climate crisis caused by those emissions.

Between January 2016 and December 2021, researcher Benjamin Jones and colleagues presented estimates of the damage from mining. In 2020, the mining activity used 75.4 Tera watt-hours of electricity. Austria's consumption is 69.9 TWh/year, while Portugal's is 48.6 TWh/year.

The authors looked at three criteria in assessing the climate damage of the coin: whether the damage increases over time, if the market price exceeds the economic cost of the damage, and how the damage caused by each mined coin compares to the damage caused by other sectors and commodities.

The value of a virtual currency is about 21,000 euros.

As of December 31, 2021, the total volume of the digital currency was 999 billion, with a global share of 42%.

The current market value of the total set of bitcoin has fallen to around 378,000 million euros, but it still has a 41% share in the market.

Emissions increase.

The researchers found that the emissions from the mining of the virtual currency have increased by 126.