Advances in quantitative hepcidin measurements by time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

Assays for the detection of the iron regulatory hormone hepcidin in plasma or urine have not yet been widely available, whereas quantitative comparisons between hepcidin levels in these different matrices were thus far even impossible due to technical restrictions. To circumvent these limitations, w...

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Main Authors: Dorine W Swinkels, Domenico Girelli, Coby Laarakkers, Joyce Kroot, Natascia Campostrini, Erwin H J M Kemna, Harold Tjalsma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-07-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18628991/pdf/?tool=EBI