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Influence of delayed separation of plasma from whole blood and centrifugation protocol on Zn plasma concentration

  • Mandy Leger , Quentin Despinasse , Patrice Faure , Josiane Arnaud , Corinne Ravelet and Benoit Chovelon EMAIL logo

Corresponding author: Benoit Chovelon, Institute of Biology and Pathology, University Hospital of Grenoble and Alps, CS 10217, Grenoble cedex 9, 38043, France, E-mail:

  1. Research funding: None declared.

  2. Author contributions: All authors have accepted responsibility for the entire content of this manuscript and approved its submission.

  3. Competing interests: Authors state no conflict of interest.

  4. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals included in this study.

  5. Ethical approval: Research involving human subjects complied with all relevant national regulations, institutional policies and is in accordance with the tenets of the Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013), and has been approved by the authors’ Institutional Review Board or equivalent committee.

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Received: 2020-03-25
Accepted: 2020-06-02
Published Online: 2020-07-01
Published in Print: 2020-10-25

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