Substantial discrepancies in 17β-oestradiol concentrations obtained with three different commercial direct radioimmunoassay kits in rat sera

Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 806-813

  Ström, Jakob O ^a   Theodorsson, Annette ^a   Theodorsson, Elvar ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Oestrogens; Pharmacokinetics; Radioimmunoassay; Rats; Validation studies

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANIMAL; BLOOD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STANDARD;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REAGENT KITS, DIAGNOSTIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 57349095598     PISSN: 00365513     EISSN: 15027686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365510802254638     Document Type: Article

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