Glucose sampling: importance of citrate

Annals of Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 715-716

  Carta, Mariarosa ^a   Montagnana, Martina ^b   Cascio, Claudia Lo ^c   Bonetti, Graziella ^d  

^a SAN BORTOLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRIC ACID; GLUCOSE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEPARIN; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

BLOOD COLLECTION TUBE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; GLYCOLYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMPAIRED GLUCOSE TOLERANCE; IN VITRO STUDY; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANALYSIS; BLOOD CELL; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; METABOLISM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS;

ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD CELLS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CITRIC ACID; GLYCOLYSIS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

EID: 84991206660     PISSN: 00045632     EISSN: 17581001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0004563216645621     Document Type: Editorial

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