Re-assessment of the cut-off levels of Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin (CDT) for automated immunoassay and multi-capillary electrophoresis for application in a forensic context

Clinica Chimica Acta

Volumn 416, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-4

  Bortolotti, Federica ^a   Trevisan, Maria Teresa ^b   Micciolo, Rocco ^c   Canal, Luisa ^c   Vandoros, Anthula ^d   Palmbach, Timothy M ^d   Tagliaro, Franco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^b S Bonifacio Hospital   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN   (United States)

Author keywords

Capillary array electrophoresis; Carbohydrate Deficient Transferrin; CDT; Cut off concentration; HPLC; Immunoassay

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ANION EXCHANGE CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER LICENCE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FORENSIC SCIENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNONEPHELOMETRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MULTI CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; NEPHELOMETRY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AUTOMATION; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; ROC CURVE; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 84870985545     PISSN: 00098981     EISSN: 18733492     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2012.11.015     Document Type: Article

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