Objectives Laboratory results are increasingly interpreted against common reference
intervals (CRIs), published clinical decision limits, or previous results for the same patient …

Objectives Thermostability is one of the pre-requisites for the reliability of analytes in clinical
practice and biomedical research. Although presepsin represents a promising new …

Objectives We report the results of glucose measurements performed during one year by the
same measurement procedures (MPs) in 58 Norwegian hospital laboratories using control …

Endocannabinoids (ECs), such as anandamide and 2-arachidonyl glycerol (2-AG),
contribute to the pathology of inflammatory, malignant, cardiovascular, metabolic and mental …

Introduction Metabolomics is a rapidly growing field that aims to understand the complex
metabolic pathways involved in health and disease. Liquid chromatography mass …

Craniopharyngioma patients often suffer from a diminished quality of life after surgery, which
is usually associated with metabolic disorders and hypothalamic obesity. However, the …

Background The pre-analytical (PA) phase is the most vulnerable phase of the laboratory
testing procedure, with critical procedures-collection, handling, sample transport, and time …

Background Delays between blood collection and analysis are inevitable, and samples are
always stored in the refrigerator. The current study aimed to evaluate the stability of serum …

Abstract Evaluation of the stability of serum and plasma analytes under different
temperatures and time points is vital since it significantly affects the pre-analytical errors. The …

The pre-analytical handling of plasma, how it is drawn, processed, and stored, influences its
composition. Samples in eg biobanks often lack this information and consequently important …