Quality assurance in analysis of cryogenically stored liver tissue specimens from the NIST National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB)

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 226, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 165-176

  Mackey, E A ^a   Demiralp, R ^a   Fitzpatrick, K A ^a   Porter, B J ^a   Wise, S A ^a   Becker, P R ^a   Greenberg, R R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryogenic storage; Liver tissue; National Biomonitoring Specimen Bank (NBSB); Neutron activation analysis (NAA); Quality assurance (QA); Standard Reference Material (SRM); Trace elements

Indexed keywords

CHROMIUM; TRACE ELEMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIODEGRADATION; BIOLOGICAL MONITORING; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER; MOISTURE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; STANDARD; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; LIVER; MICE; NEUTRON ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE BANKS; TRACE ELEMENTS; WHALES;

BOVINAE; OSTREIDAE;

EID: 0032961199     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(98)00387-8     Document Type: Article

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