Total plasma homocysteine in Bulgarian population measured by high-performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection - Comparison with fluorescence polarization immunoassay

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 52, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 527-533

  Angelova, Evgeniya A ^a   Minkova, Galya D ^a   Tsvetkova, Todorka Z ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF PLOVDIV   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Bulgarian men and women; High performance liquid chromatography; Homocysteine concentration; HPLC; Monobromobimane

Indexed keywords

HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DRUG COMPETITION; EUROPE; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BULGARIA; CALIBRATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION IMMUNOASSAY; HOMOCYSTINE; HUMANS; HYPERHOMOCYSTEINEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, FLUORESCENCE;

EID: 33750490459     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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