Reply to: On the importance of the use of proper approaches for comparison of analytical methods for serum nitrate and evaluation of reference concentrations. By Dr. Dimitrios Tsikas and Dr. Jens M Hohlfeld

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 10-11, 2009, Pages 1197-1199

  Larsen, Tine Lise ^a   Nilsen, Valentina ^a   Andersen, Dag Olav ^a   Francis, George ^b   Rustad, Pål ^c   Mansoor, Mohammad Azam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGDER   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c Furst Medical Laboratory   (Norway)

Author keywords

Griess reagent; HPLC; Nitrate; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

NITRATE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CHEMOLUMINESCENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LETTER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; STANDARD;

EID: 67349165399     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2009.03.014     Document Type: Letter

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