Clinical Chemistry

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amniotic fluid, synovial fluid, pleural fluid, peritoneal fluid and pericardial fluid. These fluids often contain the same biologic analytes of interest – such as glucose and protein – but differ greatly from each other in physical and chemical properties. These differences in fluid characteristics are termed matrix differences.

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