Critique: Measuring hydrogen stable isotope abundance of proteins to infer origins of wildlife, food and people

Bioanalysis

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 751-767

  Meier Augenstein, Wolfram ^a,b   Hobson, Keith A ^c   Wassenaar, Leonard I ^c,d  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASEIN; HYDROGEN; PROTEIN; SEA WATER; SILK FIBROIN;

AMINO ACID ANALYSIS; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; FRACTIONATION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; HYDROGEN ISOTOPE EXCHANGE; ISOTOPE ANALYSIS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MATERIALS; NONHUMAN; PRECIPITATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE SUBSTANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STANDARD; WATER ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; FOOD MICROBIOLOGY; FORENSIC SCIENCES; HAIR; HUMANS; HYDROGEN; PROTEINS;

EID: 84875726844     PISSN: 17576180     EISSN: 17576199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/bio.13.36     Document Type: Review

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