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Published in final edited form as: Anal Bioanal Chem. 2018 Nov 22;411(3):765–776. doi: 10.1007/s00216-018-1498-4

Table 3.

Recovery of Cu, Fe, Zn, and Cd and interfering elements for Cu obtained from applying the trace metal separation protocol to whole blood and plasma samples

Fraction	Elements	Whole blood (n = 3) Seronorm™ Trace Elements L-3	Plasma (n = 10) From 10 donors
		AVE ± SD	AVE ± SD
Cu	Cu	99.5 ± 0.1%	99.5 ± 0.1%
	Na	0.1 ± 0.1%	0.3 ± 0.3%
	Mg	0.4 ± 0.3%	1.4 ± 1.8%
	Ca	1.6 ± 0.4%	1.9 ± 1.3%
	P	0.1 ± 0.1%	0.6 ± 0.8%
	S	0.3 ± 0.5%	0.3 ± 0.5%
Fe	Fe	99.7 ± 0.2%	98.1 ± 0.6%
Zn	Zn	99.6 ± 0.1%	98.6 ± 0.7%
Cd	Cd	93.8 ± 3.5%	-