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This chapter provides a brief description of techniques employed to assay zinc in plasma and blood cell in my laboratory. Many clinical laboratories use inaccurate and imprecise methods for assay of zinc. Since the levels of zinc in plasma and blood cells are very low, the methods must be very accurate in order to derive important biological information from this assay.
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Prasad, A.S. (1993). Techniques for Measurement of Zinc in Biological Samples. In: Biochemistry of Zinc. Biochemistry of the Elements, vol 11. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9444-1_13
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