Use of frozen sera for FT4 standardization: Investigation by equilibrium dialysis combined with isotope dilution-mass spectrometry and immunoassay

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 52, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1817-1820

  Van Uytfanghe, Katleen ^a   Stöckl, Dietmar ^a   Ross, H Alec ^b   Thienpont, Linda M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON 13; THYROXINE;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIALYSATE; EQUILIBRIUM DIALYSIS; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SERUM; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; THYROID DISEASE;

BLOOD PROTEINS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIALYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INDICATOR DILUTION TECHNIQUES; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN BINDING; REFERENCE STANDARDS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROXINE;

EID: 33748323099     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.070425     Document Type: Article

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