Obtaining blood from healthy volunteers for assay validation on iron parameters.
- Conditions
- Iron disorders
- Registration Number
- NL-OMON46555
- Lead Sponsor
- Radboud Universitair Medisch Centrum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Participants need to be healthy volunteers between 18 and 55 years old. They should live in the Netherlands and preferably in the area of Nijmegen. People who are diagnosed with any iron disorder can not participate in this study. Examples of Iron disorders are anemia, β-thalassaemia, hemochromatosis and IRIDA. Also people that use any sort of medication can not participate, however the use of contraceptive pills is allowed.
If deviant iron parameter values are found in samples of the healthy volunteers they will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational invasive
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The main study endpoint for this study is storage of blood from healthy<br /><br>volunteers to use in the validation of an ERFE assay.</p><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method <p>The use of the stored plasma and serum for the validation of assays in the<br /><br>field of iron metabolism in the next 10 years. </p><br>