We are conducting an animal study where we want to measure APTT and PT
levels in dogs every week.  We have been sending citrated plasma to
laboratories that deal with human specimens and have gotten clotting
times of >150 for APTT.  I have spoken with some vets and they say

Does anyone know how long beforehand you should stop taking
carbamezapine (Tegretol) for it not to show up in your blood test?

Need authoritative literature citations to support position.

I am a 37 year old male who has had a lot of weird health problems
over the past 12 years and would like to take another crack at getting
it resolved.Anyone feel free to take a crack,but please this is not a
joke so try to be serious.I eat a good diet and am 5'7 and 165 lbs.I

We have our coag instrument hooked up to our LIS. Results are
downloaded to the LIS and resulted through the LIS. Now my question
is, since the results are already saved on the LIS and through the
backup tapes, do we need to be saving the results directly off of the

I am not sure if this is the right group, but I cannot find a better one.
(That's active anyway). Does dog allergen cross-react with any other known
allergen?
Thanks,