The effect of freezing, thawing, and short- and long-term storage on serum thyrotropin, thyroid hormones, and thyroid autoantibodies: Implications for analyzing samples stored in serum banks [7]

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1986-1987

  Männistö, Tuija ^a   Surcel, Heljä Marja ^b   Bloigu, Aini ^b   Ruokonen, Aimo ^a   Hartikainen, Anna Liisa ^a   Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^a,c   Pouta, Anneli ^b   Vääräsmäki, Marja ^a   Suvanto Luukkonen, Eila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; FREEZING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREGNANCY; SAMPLING; SERUM; THAWING; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

AUTOANTIBODIES; BLOOD BANKS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; PREGNANCY; SERUM; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 35649006736     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2007.091371     Document Type: Letter

References (3)

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