Implications for the use of acid preservatives in 24-hour urine for measurements of high demand biochemical analytes in clinical laboratories

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 412, Issue 23-24, 2011, Pages 2322-2325

  Feres, Marcia C ^a   Bini, Rolando ^a,b   De Martino, Maria Cristina ^b   Biagini, Simone P ^b   de Sousa, Altay Lino ^a   Campana, Paulo G ^b   Tufik, Sergio ^a,b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Associacao Fundo de Incentivo a Psicofarmacologia   (Brazil)

Author keywords

24 h urine; 6mol l HCl; Acidification; Analytes; Collection; Preservative

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; AMYLASE; CALCIUM; CHLORIDE; CITRIC ACID; CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HYDROCORTISONE; MAGNESIUM; METADRENALIN; OXALIC ACID; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; PRESERVATIVE; SODIUM; UREA; URIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CLINICAL LABORATORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; ENZYME CHEMISTRY; FEMALE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; URINALYSIS;

ACIDS; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; URINALYSIS;

EID: 80053654358     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2011.08.033     Document Type: Article

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