Solution densities and estimated total protein contents associated with inappropriate flotation of separator gel in different blood collection tubes

Archives of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 135, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1081-1084

  Faught, Ronald C ^a   Marshall, James ^a   Bornhorst, Joshua ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEXTRAN; PLASMA PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY GRADIENT CENTRIFUGATION; GEL; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; RELATIVE DENSITY; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY;

BLOOD PROTEINS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CENTRIFUGATION, DENSITY GRADIENT; DEXTRANS; GELS; HUMANS; SOLUTIONS; SPECIFIC GRAVITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 80052909710     PISSN: 00039985     EISSN: 15432165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5858/2010-0488-OAR.1     Document Type: Article

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