Comparison of access ultrasensitive human growth hormone assay to monoclonal antibody-based immunoradiometric assay

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 376, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 248-249

  Iwahara, Kunuhiro ^a   Tanabe, Chizuko ^a   Maekawa, Masato ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemiluminescence; Enzyme immunoassay; Growth hormone; Immunoradiometric assay; Pituitary; Ultrasensitive

Indexed keywords

HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; CHEMILUMINESCENCE ENZYME IMMMUNOASSAY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; IMMUNORADIOMETRIC ASSAY; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33845346149     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.09.018     Document Type: Letter

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