Assessment of urinary N-telopeptide: Point-of-care testing, sample types, and relationship to urinary helical peptide excretion

• Published in: Clinica chimica acta Vol. 372; no. 1; pp. 65 - 69
• Main Authors: Zwart, Sara R., DeKerlegand, Diane E., Davis-Street, Janis E., Smith, Scott M.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.10.2006
• Subjects: Bone resorption; Collagen crosslinks; Collagen Type I - urine; ELISA; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; Female; Helical peptide; Humans; Male; N-telopeptide; Peptides - urine; Point-of-Care Systems; Point-of-care testing; Reproducibility of Results; Bone resorption; Point-of-care testing; Helical peptide; NTX; Collagen crosslinks; HP; N-telopeptide; ES; ELISA
• ISSN: 0009-8981; 1873-3492
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2006.03.013

A point-of-care (POC) device would be useful in the space program for measuring N-telopeptide (NTX), a marker of bone resorption. This study was done to establish whether NTX measurements from a POC device compare favorably with standard (ELISA) techniques. We also compared results from fresh and fr...