Stability of red blood cell folate in whole blood and haemolysate

Clinical Laboratory

Volumn 56, Issue 9-10, 2010, Pages 391-396

  Zemlin, Annalise E ^a   Essack, Younus ^a   Rensburg, Megan ^a   Keller, Thomas ^b   Brinkmann, Thomas ^c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b ACOMED Statistik   (Germany)

^c BECKMAN COULTER INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Equivalence test; Red blood cell folate; Stability study

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; RED BLOOD CELL FOLATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA;

ARTICLE; BIOEQUIVALENCE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; ERYTHROCYTE; HEMOLYSATE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITY CONTROL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE TEMPERATURE; CELL DIVISION; DARKNESS; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG STABILITY; HEMOLYSIS; IMMUNOASSAY; LIGHT; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CELL DIVISION; DARKNESS; DNA; DNA REPLICATION; DRUG STABILITY; ERYTHROCYTES; FOLIC ACID; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; LIGHT;

EID: 79952111739     PISSN: 14336510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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