ea0009p51 | Growth and development | BES2005
Teoh Y
, Macintyre H
, Ahmed F
, Wallace M
BackgroundThere is a need to develop a highly sensitive and reliable immunoassay method for the determination of testosterone concentrations both in children and adults. Testosterone in blood is largely bound to proteins (sex hormone binding globulin and albumin). The unbound fraction of testosterone is considered to be the biologically active hormone which correlates more closely with the physiologically effective level of this hormone. It is postulated...