Dynamics of serum testosterone during the menstrual cycle evaluated by daily measurements with an ID-LC-MS/MS method and a 2nd generation automated immunoassay

Steroids

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 96-101

  Bui, Hong N ^a   Sluss, Patrick M ^b   Blincko, Stuart ^c   Knol, Dirk L ^a   Blankenstein, Marinus A ^a   Heijboer, Annemieke C ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ABBOTT GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Liquid chromatography Tandem mass spectrometry; Menstrual cycle; Reference interval; Second generation automated immunoassay; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; ISOTOPE DILUTION ASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LUTEAL PHASE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; OVULATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PROGESTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AUTOMATION, LABORATORY; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; MALE; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84869863293     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: 18785867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.steroids.2012.10.010     Document Type: Article

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