Insulin immunoassays: Fast approaching 50 years of existence and still calling for standardization

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 810-812

  Sapin, Rémy ^a  

^a Institut de Physique Biologique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN; PREPROINSULIN; PROINSULIN;

EDITORIAL; ELECTROPHORESIS; GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; GUINEA PIG; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INSULIN RELEASE; INSULIN RESISTANCE; NONHUMAN; STANDARDIZATION;

HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; INSULIN; REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 34248399094     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.084012     Document Type: Editorial

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