Results of an international round robin for serum and whole-blood folate

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1689-1694

  Gunter, Elaine W ^a   Bowman, Barbara A ^a   Caudill, Samuel P ^a   Twite, Della B ^a   Adams, Myron J ^a   Sampson, Eric J ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

chemiluminescence; chromatography; intermethod comparison; ion capture; microbiological assay; radioassay

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID;

AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LABORATORY TEST; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; RADIOASSAY; REFERENCE VALUE;

EID: 0029952781     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/42.10.1689     Document Type: Article

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