Performance of direct estradiol immunoassays with human male serum samples

Clinical Chemistry

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 510-517

  Handelsman, David J ^a   Newman, Julie D ^b   Jimenez, Mark ^a   McLachlan, Robert ^c   Sartorius, Gideon ^a   Jones, Graham R D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Southern Cross Pathology Australia   (Australia)

^c MONASH MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

^d ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOASSAY ANALYZER; IMMUNOLOGY TEST KIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEX HORMONE DETERMINATION; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ESTRADIOL; HUMANS; IMMUNOASSAY; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 84895813774     PISSN: 00099147     EISSN: 15308561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2013.213363     Document Type: Article

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