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insulin assay

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insulin assay,
a blood test used to diagnose insulinoma (tumor of the islets of Langerhans) and to evaluate patients with fasting hypoglycemia. It is often combined with a fasting plasma glucose test to increase its diagnostic value.


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Sharan Kandhai and Kaamaine Ganasen of Inkosi Albert Luthuli Hospital, Chemical Pathology Laboratory, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban for insulin assay and Ms.
Currently, the lack of standardization of insulin assays hinders efforts to achieve consistent measures for treatment guidelines and precludes setting a specific insulin concentration above which a person is defined as insulin resistant.
We determined the levels of plasma insulin by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using a mouse insulin assay kit from Mercodia AB (Uppsala, Sweden).
 
 
 
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