Salivary steroid assays - Research or routine?

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 183-196

  Wood, Peter ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANDROSTENEDIONE; CORTISONE ACETATE; DEXAMETHASONE; ESTRADIOL; GLUCOCORTICOID; HYDROCORTISONE; HYDROXYPROGESTERONE; PRASTERONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID; TESTOSTERONE; TETRACOSACTIDE;

ADDISON DISEASE; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; CONTAMINATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CUSHING DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TEST; LOW DRUG DOSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; REVIEW; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STEROID 21 MONOOXYGENASE DEFICIENCY; STEROID ANALYSIS; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL; STEROID METABOLISM; STORAGE; ULTRAFILTRATION;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CUSHING SYNDROME; HUMANS; SALIVA; STEROIDS;

EID: 66249099841     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 00045632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/acb.2008.008208     Document Type: Review

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