Better blood collection tubes for plasma glucose: Ready for prime time?

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Szoke, Dominika ^a,b   Valente, Cristina ^a   Panteghini, Mauro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

citrate acidification; glycolysis inhibition; sodium fluoride

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; OXALIC ACID; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

ANALYSIS; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PATHOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; OXALIC ACID; SODIUM FLUORIDE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84898967908     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2013-1006     Document Type: Letter

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