Determination of salivary testosterone and androstendione by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 413, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 594-599

  Turpeinen, Ursula ^a   Hämäläinen, Esa ^a,b   Haanpää, Mikko ^a   Dunkel, Leo ^c  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Androgens; ESI; LC MS MS; Salivary androstendione; Salivary testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SALIVA LEVEL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ANDROSTENEDIONE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SALIVA; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84856214572     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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