Effect of temperature on the stability of long-chain acylcarnitines in human blood prior to plasma separation

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 375, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 169-170

  Mancinelli, Angelo ^a   Iannoni, Emerenziana ^a   Duran, Marinus ^b   Calvani, Menotti ^a  

^a Sigma Tau SpA   (Italy)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYLCARNITINE; CARNITINE;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; THERMOSTABILITY; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESERVATION; CARNITINE; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 33750083330     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.06.014     Document Type: Letter

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