Preanalytical stability of adrenocorticotropic hormone depends on time to centrifugation rather than temperature [3]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 358-359

  Reisch, Nicole ^a   Reincke, Martin ^a   Bidlingmaier, Martin ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; EDETIC ACID;

ADDISON DISEASE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RANK SUM TEST; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CENTRIFUGATION; HUMANS; TEMPERATURE; TIME;

EID: 33847354281     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.080622     Document Type: Letter

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