2019 · Annals of clinical biochemistry · paywalled
A novel high-throughput assay for the measurement of salivary progesterone by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
Schiffer et al.
The finding, in our words
The assay quantifies salivary progesterone with a 5.5 min run time, LLOQ 20 pmol/L, CV and bias <11%, and mean recovery 91%, and it was applied to profile progesterone across the menstrual cycle and during the luteal phase in women, enabling high-throughput, home-based hormone monitoring.
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