Preliminary investigations on the standardization and quality control for the determination of acid phosphatase activity in seminal plasma

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 375, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 76-81

  Lu, Jin Chun ^a,b   Fang Chen, ^a,c   Xu, Hui Ru ^a,d   Huang, Yu Feng ^a   Lu, Nian Qing ^e  

^a JINLING HOSPITAL   (China)

^b Department of Laboratory Science   (China)

^c NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e Jiangsu Family Planning Institute   (China)

Author keywords

Acid phosphatase; Centrifugation velocity; Chymotrypsin; Freezing thawing; Quality control; Standardization

Indexed keywords

ACID PHOSPHATASE; BIOCHEMICAL MARKER; CHYMOTRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME ANALYSIS; FREEZING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEMINAL PLASMA; STANDARDIZATION; THAWING;

ACID PHOSPHATASE; CENTRIFUGATION; CHYMOTRYPSIN; CRYOPRESERVATION; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; SEMEN; SEMEN PRESERVATION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SPERM COUNT;

EID: 33750708489     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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