Measurement of serum and plasma osmolality in healthy young humans - Influence of time and storage conditions

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 927-932

  Seifarth, Christian C ^a   Miertschischk, Johannes ^a   Hahn, Eckhardt G ^a   Hensen, Johannes ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b NORDSTADT HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diabetes insipidus; Osmolality; Storage; Syndrome of inadequate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH)

Indexed keywords

BACITRACIN;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BATH; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; PLASMA OSMOLALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STABILITY; RELIABILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SERUM OSMOLALITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; THAWING; TIME;

ADULT; EDETIC ACID; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; MALE; OSMOLAR CONCENTRATION; PLASMA; REFERENCE VALUES; SERUM; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4544345295     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2004.150     Document Type: Article

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