The purpose of this laboratory contract is to measure the level of caffeine and its primary metabolite. paraxanthine, in approximately 6,500 serum samples that have been stored in the Collaborative Perinatal Project serum repository, as well as to measure osmolality in each of these samples and toinine in approximately 565 of these samples.

Project Start
1996-11-01
Project End
1998-12-31
Budget Start
1998-10-21
Budget End
1998-12-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Utah
Department
Pharmacology
Type
Schools of Pharmacy
DUNS #
City
Salt Lake City
State
UT
Country
United States
Zip Code
84112
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