New Highly Sensitivity Assay Used to Measure Cardiac Troponin T Concentration Changes During a Continuous 216-km Marathon

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 590-592

  Giannitsis, Evangelos ^a,e   Roth, Heinz Juergen ^b   Leithäuser, Renate M ^c   Scherhag, Juergen ^d   Beneke, Ralt ^c   Katus, Hugo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Laboratory Dr Limbach and Colleagues   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; TROPONIN T;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ATHLETE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HUMAN; LETTER; MARATHON RUNNER; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN SECRETION; RACE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; BIOASSAY; BLOOD; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RUNNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; HUMANS; RUNNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TROPONIN T;

EID: 62149138791     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2008.116566     Document Type: Letter

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