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Letters to the Editor

Reply to Jung

Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vienna Medical University, Waehringerguertel 18-20, A-1090 Vienna, Austria

Received 13 February 2008; accepted 14 February 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +43 1 40400 5620/5630; fax: +43 1 40400 564. (Email: seyedhossein.aharinejad@meduniwien.ac.at).

Key Words: Matrix metalloproteinases • Serum • ELISA • Blood sampling procedure

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We thank the Editor for giving us the opportunity to reply to Dr Jung's letter to the Editor [1].

We are aware of the important impact of blood sampling procedure in measuring circulating MMP and TIMP concentrations in peripheral blood. For this reason, we used a standardized protocol for serum sampling, defining the clotting time at 30 min following blood collection by venous puncture followed by centrifugation for 15 . . . [Full Text of this Article]