“Prolactin immunoassays can be susceptible to the ‘hook effect’ artifact, which may lead to substantial underreporting of prolactin values in sera containing very high prolactin ...

THE hook effect is the factor which makes women produce false negative pregnancy test results – and most of us have never heard of it. Taking to a parenting forum, one woman said she didnR… ...

This high-dose hook effect has been documented with immunoassays for β-hCG, ferritin, prostate-specific antigen, prolactin, thyrotropin, and CA-125. 5 These inaccurate results can be overcome by ...

THE hook effect is the factor which makes women produce false negative pregnancy test results - and most of us have never heard of it. Taking to a parenting forum, one woman said she didn't have ...

As prolactin and cortisol liberation is in part influenced through NMDA-receptors we investigated whether the elevation of prolactin or cortisol plasma levels is a class effect of NMDA-antagonists ...