Translational researchers beware! Unreliable commercial immunoassays (ELISAs) can jeopardize your research

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 765-766

  Prassas, Ioannis ^a,b   Diamandis, Eleftherios P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS REACTION; EDITORIAL; ELISA KIT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; ECONOMICS; METHODOLOGY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84903631787     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2013-1078     Document Type: Editorial

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