Influence of various confounding variables and storage conditions on metanephrine and normetanephrine levels in plasma

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 153-160

  Deutschbein, Timo ^a   Unger, Nicole ^a   Jaeger, Andrea ^a   Broecker Preuss, Martina ^a   Mann, Klaus ^a   Petersenn, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METADRENALIN; NORMETADRENALIN;

ADULT; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAL; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUPINE POSITION; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND NEOPLASMS; ADULT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; METANEPHRINE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMETANEPHRINE; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954877669     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03761.x     Document Type: Article

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