Can heparin plasma be used instead of serum for nephelometric analysis of serum proteins? [6]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1609-1610

  Develter, Mieke ^a   Blanckaert, Norbert ^a   Komárek, Arnost ^b   Bossuyt, Xavier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA 2 MACROGLOBULIN; ALTERNATIVE COMPLEMENT PATHWAY C3 C5 CONVERTASE; BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; CERULOPLASMIN; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1S INHIBITOR; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C5; HEPARIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G3; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LITHIUM; OROSOMUCOID; PLASMA PROTEIN; PREALBUMIN;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NEPHELOMETRY; PLASMA; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REFERENCE VALUE;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; NEPHELOMETRY AND TURBIDIMETRY; PLASMA; SERUM;

EID: 33746597793     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.071357     Document Type: Letter

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