Glucose is stable during prolonged storage in un-centrifuged Greiner tubes with liquid citrate buffer, but not in serum and NaF/KOx tubes

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 411-418

  Juricic, Gordana ^a   Bakliza, Ana ^b   Saracevic, Andrea ^c   Kopcinovic, Lara Milevoj ^c   Dobrijevic, Sanja ^c   Drmic, Sandra ^d   Simundic, Ana Maria ^c  

^a GENERAL HOSPITAL PULA   (Croatia)

^b Zagreb Fakultet za dentalnu medicinu i zdravstvo Osijek Zdravstveno veleu ili te Zagreb   (Croatia)

^c SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^d General Hospital Vinkovci   (Croatia)

Author keywords

diabetes; Glucomedics; glycolysis; glycolysis inhibitors; preanalytical phase

Indexed keywords

BUFFER; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; LIQUID CITRATE BUFFER; OXALIC ACID DERIVATIVE; SODIUM FLUORIDE; SODIUM FLUORIDE POTASSIUM OXALATE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CITRIC ACID; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; OXALIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLUCOMEDICS TUBE; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERUM; TUBE; VEIN PUNCTURE; ADOLESCENT; CHEMISTRY; DEVICES; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CITRATES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OXALIC ACID; SERUM; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

EID: 84958817331     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0746     Document Type: Article

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