Stress hormone stability: Processing of blood samples collected during parabolic flight. A pre-flight comparison of different protocols

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 40, Issue 16-17, 2007, Pages 1332-1335

  Schneider, Stefan ^a   Brümmer, Vera ^a   Carnahan, Heather ^b   Dubrowski, Adam ^b   Askew, Christopher D ^c   Strüder, Heiko K ^a  

^a GERMAN SPORT UNIVERSITY COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE SUNSHINE COAST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hormone stability; Parabolic flight; Processing of blood samples

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOTROPIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NORADRENALIN; PROLACTIN; STRESS HORMONE;

ADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; STANDARDIZATION;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ADULT; EPINEPHRINE; FEMALE; HORMONES; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROLACTIN; SPACE MOTION SICKNESS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; WEIGHTLESSNESS;

EID: 35248831289     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2007.07.022     Document Type: Article

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