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R J Mackay, C M Florkowski, P M George, C W Sies, and S Woods

Uncertainty of sweat chloride testing: does the right hand know what the left hand is doing?
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 535-538; doi:10.1258/acb.2008.008127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review Article

Joy E S Ardill

Circulating markers for endocrine tumours of the gastroenteropancreatic tract
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 539-559; doi:10.1258/acb.2008.008039 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Original Articles

R L Stronge, G B Turner, B T Johnston, D R McCance, A McGinty, C C Patterson, and J E S Ardill

A rapid rise in circulating pancreastatin in response to somatostatin analogue therapy is associated with poor survival in patients with neuroendocrine tumours
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 560-566; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008033 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

T M Reynolds and J Aldis

Median parameters for Down's syndrome screening should be calculated using a moving time-window method
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 567-570; first published on 3 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008057 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yuji Hirowatari, Hiroshi Yoshida, Yuriko Fueki, Masayuki Ito, Yutaka Ogura, Nobuyuki Sakurai, and Takashi Miida

Measurement of cholesterol concentrations of major serum lipoprotein classes in haemodialysis patients by anion-exchange chromatography
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 571-574; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008018 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

R S Carling, S L Hogg, T C Wood, and J Calvin

Simultaneous determination of guanidinoacetate, creatine and creatinine in urine and plasma by un-derivatized liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 575-584; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008029 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephanie E Reuter, Allan M Evans, Donald H Chace, and Gianfranco Fornasini

Determination of the reference range of endogenous plasma carnitines in healthy adults
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 585-592; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Maarten T M Raijmakers, Philip H M Kuijper, Dirk L Bakkeren, and Huib L Vader

The effect of paraproteins on the erythrocyte sedimentation rate: a comparison between the StarrSed and TEST 1
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 593-597; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008062 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Short Reports

Julian H Barth and Paul E C Sibley

Standardization of the IMMULITE systems growth hormone assay with the recombinant IS 98/574
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 598-600; first published on 3 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008074 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael P Cornes, Clare Ford, and Rousseau Gama

Spurious hyperkalaemia due to EDTA contamination: common and not always easy to identify
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 601-603; first published on 3 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.007241 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Louise F Brown and Callum G Fraser

Effect of delay in sampling on haemoglobin determined by faecal immunochemical tests
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 604-605; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008024 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Case Reports

B Wheeler, P M George, K MacKenzie, P Hunt, H C Potter, and C M Florkowski

Three cases of congenital adrenal hypoplasia with novel mutations in the (NROB1) DAX-1 gene
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 606-609; doi:10.1258/acb.2008.008038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Charles van Heyningen and David M Simms

Acute intermittent porphyria presenting with a subarachnoid haemorrhage
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 610-611; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Rinkoo Dalan, Melvin Khee-Shing Leow, and David Chee-Eng Ng

High iodine (substrate) turnover Graves' disease: the intriguing ‘rapid responder’ variant of thyrotoxicosis
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 612-615; doi:10.1258/acb.2008.008098 [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Letters

H A Ross, P P C A Menheere, (on behalf of the Endocrinology Section of SKML [Dutch Foundation for Quality Assessment in Clinical Laboratories]), C M G Thomas, A H Mudde, M Kouwenberg, and B H R Wolffenbuttel

Interference from heterophilic antibodies in seven current TSH assays
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 616; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008066 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gavin P Winston and Stephan R Jaiser

Copper deficiency: an unusual case of myelopathy with neuropathy
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 616-617; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.008122 [Full Text] [PDF]  

C M Florkowski, S J Southby, and P M George

Revised national guidelines for analysis of CSF for bilirubin in suspected SAH
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 617-618; first published on 15 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.081101 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne M Cruickshank on behalf of the UK NEQAS Specialist Advisory Group for External Quality Assurance of CSF Proteins and Biochemistry

Author's response
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 618; first published on 15 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.081102 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Book

Stephen Bangert

Hyperlipidaemia: Diagnosis and Management (3rd edn.)
Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 619; doi:10.1258/acb.2008.200814 [Full Text] [PDF]  

End Pieces

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Louise Todd

Ann Clin Biochem 45(6): 620; first published on 9 September 2008 as doi: 10.1258/acb.2008.200822 [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ashley Garner

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