Roche Elecsys Prolactin II assay: Reactivity with macroprolactin compared with eight commercial assays for prolactin and determination of monomeric prolactin by precipitation with polyethylene glycol

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 53, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 485-492

  Fahie Wilson, Michael ^a   Bieglmayer, Christian ^b   Kratzsch, Jürgen ^c   Nusbaumer, Charly ^d   Roth, Heinz Jürgen ^e   Zaninotto, Martina ^f   Plebani, Mario ^f   Hubbuch, Arnulf ^g   Schneider, Erich ^g  

^a SOUTHEND HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e Limbach Laboratory   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^g ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ADVIA Centaur; Assay comparison; Macroprolactin; Monomeric prolactin; NEQAS; PEG; Polyethylene glycol precipitation; Prolactin; Reference intervals; Roche Elecsys

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; PROLACTIN;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PRECIPITATION; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; REFERENCE VALUE;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CLINICAL CHEMISTRY TESTS; DIMERIZATION; HUMANS; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; PRECIPITATION; PROLACTIN; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34548186186     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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