A clinical assessment of direct electrochemical urate measurements

Jodi S N Dutt1, Callum Livingstone, Marco F Cardosi

  • 1Department of Chemistry, School of Biomedical and Natural Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, Notts NG11 8NS, UK.

Talanta
|October 31, 2008
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