Effect of oral creatine supplementation on random urine creatinine, pH, and specific gravity measurements

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 295-297

  Ropero Miller, Jeri D ^a   Paget Wilkes, Helen ^b   Doering, Paul L ^c   Goldberger, Bruce A ^b  

^a Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (North Carolina)   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE; CREATININE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RELATIVE DENSITY; URINALYSIS; URINE PH;

EID: 0033974434     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/46.2.295     Document Type: Article

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