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Figure 8.

Figure 8

Diurnal variation. A–C: Comparison of three immunoassays measuring type I collagen degradation products in urine. A: Deoxypyridinoline (DPD), B: Aminoterminal crosslinked telopeptide (NTX), C: Carboxyterminal octapeptide (CTX). All values are creatinine-corrected. The thick line represents the mean, while thin lines are individual subjects. Reproduced from, Ju HS, Leung S, Brown B, et al. Comparison of analytical performance and biological variability of three bone resorption assays. Clin Chem 1997, 43:1570–76. With the permission of Clinical Chemistry.