Collection, processing, and storage of biological samples in epidemiologic studies: Sex hormones, carotenoids, inflammatory markers, and proteomics as examples

Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1578-1581

  Tworoger, Shelley S ^a,b   Hankinson, Susan E ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c CHANNING LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CAROTENOID; CYTOKINE; ESTROGEN; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE;

BLOOD SAMPLING; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; PRESERVATION AND STORAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; STORAGE TEMPERATURE;

ASCORBIC ACID; BLOOD PRESERVATION; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CAROTENOIDS; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; PROTEOMICS;

EID: 33749326437     PISSN: 10559965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-06-0629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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