Simplified gas chromatographic assay for paracetamol.

abstract：:This study was undertaken to investigate the extent of the reported discrepancy between serum and plasma albumin concentrations measured by the bromocresol purple (BCP) method. We have shown that plasma albumin concentrations are falsely increased by turbidity due to the precipitation of fibrinogen when plasma is dilu...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Hill PG,Wells TN

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of conditions for the elution of apo A1 and B lipoproteins from dried blood spots has led to the development of an apo B/A1 ratio assay with results for dried blood spots which are comparable with serum assays. This assay has been developed to be suitable for large scale population screening. The concept of me...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Hirst AD,Beswick K

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eleven unfit bank executives in sedentary employment exercised daily for 10 weeks according to the Canadian Air-Force 5BX Exercise Programme. Over this period no changes were observed in the glucose or insulin responses to a standard breakfast or to intravenous glucose, or in the glucose response to intravenous insuli...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Moore RA,Penfold WA,Simpson RD,Simpson RW,Mann JI,Turner RC

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lack of accuracy in expressing concentrations of specific proteins in different lots of Hyland calibrating reference and quality control materials, supplied for the Hyland PDQ laser nephelometer, prompted an attempt to find alternative and more reliable calibrating materials available commercially. Laser grade (Atlant...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Shulman G

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bloodspot assay for testosterone has been developed using an antiserum raised against testosterone-3-carboxymethyloxime-bovine serum albumin (T-3 CMO-BSA) conjugate and 125I-T-3CMO-histamine tracer. The method has a detection limit of 0.4 nmol/L with between-batch precision of less than 15% for testosterone values b...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Walker J,Hughes IA,Wood PJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the recent outbreak in West Africa, hospitals worldwide have been developing protocols for suspect of cases of Ebola virus disease. Patients with Ebola virus disease present with a severe gastroenteritis leading to dehydration and electrolyte abnormalities and as such, routine chemistry analysis is esse...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： LeBlanc JJ,Heinstein C,MacDonald J,Gallant R,Roberts C,Jackson C,Lou A,Nassar BA,Hatchette TF

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Measurement of serum natriuretic peptides is recommended in patients with suspected heart failure. Assays for N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are available on several platforms and can be measured in serum or heparinized plasma. Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics do not recommend the use of...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Peake RW,Turner HE,Leaper W,Deans KA,Hannah A,Croal BL

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple procedure is described for the preparation of a stable precision quality control material for use in the measurement of level of ionised calcium in serum at or near the reference range. Repeat analyses on a Nova 2 ionised calcium analyser of serum pools stored at different temperatures over a period of three ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Fyffe JA,Jenkins AS,Bolland CJ,Dryburgh FJ,Gardner MD

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive radioimmunoassay method for sodium cromoglycate in human plasma is described. The lowest quantifiable concentration of sodium cromoglycate is 0.93 nmol/l when 0.1 ml plasma samples are analysed. Direct analysis of sodium cromoglycate concentrations in plasma samples collected up to several hours after the ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Brown K,Gardner JJ,Lockley WJ,Preston JR,Wilkinson DJ

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 1381 urine specimens were screened using a Microgenics CEDIA urinary primary methadone metabolite (2-ethylidene-1,5-dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyrrolidine; EDDP) immunoassay (cut-off calibrator concentration of 100 microg/L) in combination with a Dade Behring EMIT urinary methadone immunoassay (cut-off calibrator...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： George S,Parmar S,Meadway C,Braithwaite RA

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Accumulating evidence shows an over-abundance of Fusobacterium nucleatum in colorectal tumour tissues. Although stool DNA testing of Fusobacterium nucleatum might be a potential marker for the detection of colorectal tumours, the difficulty in detecting Fusobacterium nucleatum in stool by conventional metho...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Suehiro Y,Sakai K,Nishioka M,Hashimoto S,Takami T,Higaki S,Shindo Y,Hazama S,Oka M,Nagano H,Sakaida I,Yamasaki T

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Method-dependent variation of caeruloplasmin measurement is significant and necessitates the requirement for assay-specific reference intervals. Local determination becomes necessary in the absence of suitable published or manufacturer-quoted reference intervals. METHODS:Applicability of the Beckman Coulter...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Kaye OE,Cook P

更新日期：2021-01-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequential measurements of plasma alkaline phosphatase activity were made in 84 pre-term infants delivered before 38 weeks gestation. In 67% of infants, without evidence of rickets but in whom three or more measurements were made and the peak activity was less than 10 times the adult reference range, the activity rose...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Walters EG,Murphy JF,Henry P,Gray OP,Elder GH

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Individuals who are unable to metabolize the short-acting muscle relaxant succinylcholine due to abnormal cholinesterase activity are currently investigated via spectrophotometry using artificial substrates and enzyme inhibitors. Methods have been described using succinylcholine as substrate but with measure...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Spencer JD,Rushton D,Allen KR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of oral vitamin E supplementation on the oxido-reductive status of red blood cells in normal mice and those subject to oxidative stress by chronic administration of the anti-tumour drug Adriamycin was investigated. Mice were randomly separated into three groups of 20 animals each and maintained on diets ide...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Thabrew MI,Samarawickrema N,Chandrasena LG,Jayasekera S

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many contradictory results have been published on the stability of total non-esterified fatty acids in blood, plasma and serum under different storage conditions. The present study was undertaken to investigate the stability of non-esterified fatty acids, measured with an enzymatic method, in samples of EDTA-treated p...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Menéndez LG,Fernández AL,Enguix A,Ciriza C,Amador J

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterophilic antibodies are well described, but poorly appreciated interferents and is often not a recognized problem affecting most immunoassays. We report a patient presented with ectopic Cushing's syndrome (CS), but repeated plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) concentrations conducted by immunoassay were inap...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Saiegh L,Odeh M,Chen-Konak L,Elias N,Sheikh-Ahmad M,Reut M,Slobodin G,Bejar J,Shechner C

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three sensitive assays (Behring, Organon and LKB-Pharmacia) for measurement of serum thyrotropin (TSH) were evaluated. All three assays showed good precision, sensitivity, linearity and for practical purposes negligible high dose hook effects. The correlations between the assays were excellent, but due to standardisat...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Bonte HA,Vermes I,v d Sluijs Veer G

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The analysis of steroids in biological matrices is challenging. One can apply immunoassay as well as gas and liquid chromatography with various types of detection, depending on the available equipment and the experience of the analyst. The question is how the methods are interchangeable between themselves. D...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Kosicka K,Siemiątkowska A,Szpera-Goździewicz A,Krzyścin M,Bręborowicz G,Główka F

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The standard colorimetric methods most often used for the measurement of serum unsaturated iron binding capacity (UIBC) are subject to gross interference by iron dextran. This paper describes a brief evaluation of an alternative radiometric assay for serum UIBC, based on a commercially available kit method, but incorp...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Kind CN

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Measured (MO) and calculated osmotic concentrations (CO) and the osmotic gap (OG) are commonly used in the investigation of electrolyte and volume disturbances as well as in cases of suspected volatile ingestion. Methods We compared 38 published formulae for CO with MO on a large data-set ( n = 9466) and ad...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Wilgen U,Pretorius CJ,Ungerer JP

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of experiments are described which show that second derivative spectroscopy can be used to quantify conjugated lipid dienes as markers of lipid peroxidation in heptane extracts of plasma from patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and healthy controls. Results obtained by this method gave reasona...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Situnayake RD,Crump BJ,Zezulka AV,Davis M,McConkey B,Thurnham DI

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) plays important roles in a variety of biological responses, especially in the area of vascular biology, and the determination of its plasma concentration is believed to be important. Several mechanisms are known to be involved in the metabolism of LPA. METHODS:To identify factors...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Hosogaya S,Yatomi Y,Nakamura K,Ohkawa R,Okubo S,Yokota H,Ohta M,Yamazaki H,Koike T,Ozaki Y

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hereditary renal hypouricaemia (HRH) is a genetic disorder commonly associated with exercise-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). We report the case of a 19-year-old man who was admitted to hospital with exercise-induced AKI and who was subsequently shown to have HRH. We believe this to be the first description of a cas...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Chakraborty S,Sural S

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Diabetic patients with end-stage renal disease who are not on haemodialysis show low concentrations of HbA1c and glycated albumin due to renal anaemia and proteinuria, respectively. In the present study, we examined whether serum albumin-adjusted glycated albumin could accurately reflect glycaemic control i...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Fukami K,Shibata R,Nakayama H,Yamada K,Okuda S,Koga M

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background The clinical utility of serum thyroglobulin in the follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma may be compromised by the presence of endogenous antithyroglobulin antibodies. To prevent interference by antithyroglobulin antibodies several groups have developed real-time PCR-based assays for q...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Feddersen S,Bastholt L,Pedersen SM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoglycaemia is an uncommon manifestation of hypopituitarism in non-diabetic adults. A 47-year-old woman with Cushing's disease was treated with bilateral adrenalectomy and pituitary radiotherapy following unsuccessful trans-sphenoidal surgery. Twenty years later, she presented with a tonic-clonic seizure and recurre...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： McAulay V,Seckl JR,Strachan MW

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background Antiphospholipid syndrome is an autoimmune disease characterized by thrombosis, fetal losses and thrombocytopenia associated to antiphospholipid antibodies. They are directed to phospholipids, such as cardiolipins (anticardiolipin) and lupus anticoagulant or to complexes formed by phospholipids and protein ...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Pelusa HF,Pezzarini E,Basiglio CL,Musuruana J,Bearzotti M,Svetaz MJ,Daniele SM,Bottai H,Arriaga SM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The seasonal variation of serum 25-hydroxy vitamin D3 and 1,25-dihydroxy-vitamin D has been investigated. Blood was taken from 27 healthy volunteers, aged 21-44 years old at 3 monthly intervals over a period of 1 year. A scrolling monthly programme with 12 quarterly (3 month) time periods was developed. A summer assoc...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Hine TJ,Roberts NB

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypercholesterolemia (plasma cholesterol concentration â¥5.2 mmol/L) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and stroke. Many different cholesterol self-tests are readily available at general stores, pharmacies and web shops. However, there is limited information on their analytical and diagnostic perfor...

journal_title：Annals of clinical biochemistry

authors： Kurstjens S,Gemen E,Walk S,Njo T,Krabbe J,Gijzen K,Elisen MGLM,Kusters R

更新日期：2021-01-21 00:00:00