Shipping blood to a central laboratory in multicenter clinical trials: effect of ambient temperature on specimen temperature, and effects of temperature on mononuclear cell yield, viability and immunologic function
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Clinical trials of immunologic therapies provide opportunities to study the cellular and molecular effects of those therapies and may permit identification of biomarkers of response. When the trials are performed at multiple centers,...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2011-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Translational Medicine |
| Online Access: | http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/9/1/26 |