Measuring postmortem glycated hemoglobin - A comparison of three methods

Legal Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 72-78

  Keltanen, Terhi ^a   Sajantila, Antti ^a   Valonen, Tiina ^a   Vanhala, Teija ^a   Lindroos, Katarina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Glycated hemoglobin; Mono S cation exchange HPLC; Postmortem

Indexed keywords

2 PROPANOL; ACETONE; EDETIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; KETONE BODY;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANALYZER; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIABETIC KETOACIDOSIS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KETOACIDOSIS; MONO S CATION EXCHANGE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTHUMOUS CARE; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, AFFINITY; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; EDETIC ACID; ENZYME ASSAYS; FIXATIVES; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 84873570163     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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