Long-term stability of glucose: 96-h study using Terumo Glycaemia tubes

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 407-410

  Winter, Theresa ^a   Greiser, Anne ^a   Nauck, Matthias ^a   Petersmann, Astrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

Author keywords

glucose; glycolysis inhibition; plasma; sample transportation; stability

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; EDETIC ACID; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TERUMO GLYCAEMIA TUBE; TUBE; VENOUS BLOOD; ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DEVICE MATERIAL; DEVICES; DRUG STABILITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; LABORATORY TECHNIQUE; METABOLISM; STANDARDS;

BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DRUG STABILITY; EDETIC ACID; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS;

EID: 84958767458     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0548     Document Type: Article

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