Thyroid hormones are stable even during prolonged frozen storage

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1669-1670

  Männistö, Tuija ^a,c   Suvanto, Eila ^a   Surcel, Heljä Marja ^b   Ruokonen, Aimo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Storage; Thyroid; Thyrotropin; Thyroxine.

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; FREEZE THAWING; FROZEN SECTION; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; FEMALE; FREEZING; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TIME FACTORS; TRIIODOTHYRONINE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78751635653     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2010.324     Document Type: Letter

References (2)

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