Abstract：
:We report the development and characterization of an IRMA for the direct measurement of nicked human chorionic gonadotropin (hCGn) in blood and urine. hCGn derived from a reference preparation of hCG used as an immunogen elicits monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) with enhanced recognition of human luteinizing hormone epitopes. The most specific assay for pregnancy hCGn is an IRMA composed of one mAb to choriocarcinoma-derived hCGn (C5) and a second mAb developed from immunization with normal-pregnancy hCGn. This assay was used to evaluate hCGn profiles in normal, in vitro fertilization, Down syndrome, and ectopic pregnancies. In all pregnancies, hCGn was usually present in much lower concentrations than the non-nicked hCG isoform. Our results suggest that some form of physical separation from the overwhelming quantities of non-nicked hCG present in clinical specimens will be required before accurate immunochemical estimations of hCGn can be made.
journal_name
Clin Chemjournal_title
Clinical chemistryauthors
Kovalevskaya G,Birken S,Kakuma T,Schlatterer J,O'Connor JFsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-01-01 00:00:00pages
68-77issue
1eissn
0009-9147issn
1530-8561journal_volume
45pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:A sensitive, specific, and simple method for determining serum or urine arylesterase (EC 3.1.1.2) is described. The enzyme acts on phenyl acetate to release phenol, which produces a stable indophenol dye with 4-aminoantipyrine and potassium ferricyanide. Arylesterase, a thiol enzyme, is reactivated by 2-mercaptoethano...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1979-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We describe a gas-liquid chromatographic method for determining mephenytoin and its active metabolite, desmethylmephenytoin, in human serum. 5-Methyl-5-phenylhydantoin is used as the internal standard. The method involves extraction of the drugs by adsorption onto charcoal and off-column derivatization to their pentyl...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We report the results of a laboratory and clinical evaluation of a commercial kit procedure (Immuno Nuclear Corp.) for measuring the mid-region of the parathyrin molecule. The estimated dose at 50% binding averaged 130 pmol/L, and the minimum detectable concentration was 14 pmol/L. The within-assay CV was less than or...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Specific gravity (SG) may perform as well as creatinine (CR) correction for adjusting urinary hormone concentrations, as well as offer some advantages. We compared the two methods and applied them to US and Bangladeshi specimens to evaluate their use in different populations. METHODS:Pearson correlations be...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2004.032292
更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present clinical evaluation of Triage immunoassay for detection of drugs of abuse, we examined a possible connection between the laboratory skills of the personnel using it and the quality of analytical results; we also evaluated the degree of concordance between the Triage results and those obtained by an inst...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Efforts to reduce the high global prevalence of nutritional anemia require the use of both reliable laboratory assays to distinguish iron deficiency from other causes of anemia and cost-effective methods for collection of blood specimens under field conditions. The suitability of using small plasma samples s...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Reference values were determined for 23 plasma free amino acids from measurements done in 148 healthy children ranging from 0 to 18 years of age. Amino acid analysis was performed by ion-exchange chromatography. We propose a graphic form of presenting the age-specific distribution of plasma amino acid concentrations w...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We used flameless atomic absorption spectrophotometry to measure concentrations of Fe, Mo, Li, As, and Zn in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of patients with malignant brain tumors benign brain tumors, non-brain malignant tumors and control (non-neoplastic disease) patients. Mean (and SD) concentrations (microgram/L) of the...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Extracellular vesicles (EVs) contain a rich cargo of different RNA species with specialized functions and clinical applications. However, the landscape and characteristics of extracellular vesicle long RNA (exLR) in human blood remain largely unknown. METHODS:We presented an optimized strategy for exLR sequ...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2018.301291
更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We evaluated the Hybritech Tandem-E procedure for quantifying choriogonadotropin (hCG) in human serum. In this "sandwich"-type assay, two monoclonal antibodies directed against different regions of the hCG molecule are used, one coated on a plastic bead, the second conjugated to alkaline phosphatase. The assay can det...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This ultrafiltration technique allows determination of free drug in 50 microL of serum. We ultrafiltered sera containing the following drugs--valproic acid (and its major metabolites), phenobarbital, diazepam, indomethacin, phenytoin, furosemide, and chloramphenicol--using both the commercially available micropartitio...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Market forces have dramatically influenced the environment in which healthcare is delivered, but these changes do not need to be interpreted negatively by community laboratorians. Only total vertical integration of laboratory medicine can control episode-of-care cost. Opportunities also exist for horizontal integratio...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A modified agarose electrophoretic system for the separation of alkaline phosphatase (ALP, EC 3.1.3.1) isoenzymes is described. Bone, liver, high-molecular-mass, and intestinal ALP are separated with high reproducibility. The sensitivity of the agarose system is superior to cellulose acetate in detecting high-Mr ALP. ...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:HDL is quantitatively the most important lipoprotein in most species and mechanistic evidence points toward a role for HDL in normal immune function. We tested the hypothesis that concentrations of HDL cholesterol are associated with risk of autoimmune disease. METHODS:From 2 studies of the general populati...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2018.299636
更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this liquid-chromatographic method for the determination of bromide in human serum, an important and unique feature is pre-analysis ultrafiltration of the sample, which effectively removes proteins. The chromatographic system consists of an anion-exchange column (Whatman Partisil SAX 10-micron particles), an isocra...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Evidence suggests that systemic inflammation may adversely impact HDL function. In this study we sought to evaluate the independent and incremental predictive performance of GlycA-a novel serum inflammatory biomarker that is an aggregate measure of enzymatically glycosylated acute phase proteins-and HDL subc...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2016.261636
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Purified arylsulfatase A (EC 3.1.6.1) from human urine was radioiodinated under conditions that caused no significant loss of antigenic activity. We used this labeled arylsulfatase A (specific radioactivity 4-7.5 Ci/g) together with nonlabeled enzyme and rabbit antiserum produced against homogeneous enzyme to develop ...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this automated system for assaying guanidino compounds, the compounds are resolved on an ion-exchange (Dowex 50) column, then reacted with phenanthrenequinone in alkaline solution. This mixture is then acidified and the resulting fluorescence is measured (lambda ex, 305 nm; lambda em, 395 nm). I applied the system ...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:o-Phthaldialdehdye reagent was used in assaying urea with a miniature centrifugal analyzer. Seventeen samples can be assayed kinetically in 2 min at a current cost of less than a penny per test. The reaction is initiated in the instrument upon simultaneous mixing of the o-phthaldialdehyde reagent containing 10 microli...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:For the past 30 years, the Sanger method has been the dominant approach and gold standard for DNA sequencing. The commercial launch of the first massively parallel pyrosequencing platform in 2005 ushered in the new era of high-throughput genomic analysis now referred to as next-generation sequencing (NGS). ...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2008.112789
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) migrate from the arterial media to the intima in the progression of atherosclerosis, and dysfunction of SMCs leads to enhanced atherogenesis. A soluble form of the LDL receptor relative with 11 ligand-binding repeats (sLR11) is produced by the intimal SMCs, and the circula...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2009.127027
更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We measured the cross reactivity of two medications--digitoxin and spironolactone--in two digoxin radioimmunoassay (liquid and solid-phase) kit procedures. Both tests showed similar average percentages of cross reactivity with digitoxin (7.2 and 8.9% for intravenous, and 11.9 and 10.9% for oral administration), but no...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent studies have suggested that single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) library preparation can enrich short DNA species from the plasma of healthy individuals, cancer patients, and transplant recipients. Based on previous observations that fetal DNA molecules in the maternal plasma are shorter than maternal DNA mole...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1373/clinchem.2016.268656
更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We used a previously reported agarose-gel electrophoresis system to study the lipoprotein patterns in patients with type 3 hyperlipoproteinemia. All samples from 20 subjects tested revealed the presence of two bands with beta-lipoprotein mobility, irrespective of quantitative changes in plasma lipids induced by diet o...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Immune repertoire sequencing of the T-cell receptor can identify clonotypes that have expanded as a result of antigen recognition or hematological malignancies. However, current sequencing protocols display limitations with nonuniform amplification and polymerase-induced errors during sequencing. Here, we de...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1093/clinchem/hvaa159
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A fluorometric assay for free erythrocyte porphyrins (FEP) is described in detail, the direct test being used for the analysis of blood specimens collected with anticoagulants and the spot test for analysis of blood specimens collected on filter paper. A method for determining the amount of blood absorbed by different...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical diagnoses were correlated with results of a Co(II)-albumin binding assay in 167 patients treated at an emergency department of a health maintenance organization. METHODS:Patients were evaluated as being nonischemic or potentially ischemic through standard coronary disease indicators [creatine kinas...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：10.1373/49.4.581
更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A triclonal gammopathy is an immunoglobulin abnormality in which three discrete monoclonal subpopulations of immunoglobulin molecules are present in a patient's serum. Monoclonal and biclonal gammopathies have been studied extensively, but relatively little is known about the much rarer triclonal gammopathies. The cas...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Autocorrelation of clinical chemistry quality-control (Q/C) measurements causes one of the basic assumptions underlying the use of Levey-Jennings control charts to be violated and performance to be degraded. This is the requirement that the observations be statistically independent. We present a proposal for a new app...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We report here the normal range of serum alkaline phophatase activity as measured by the method proposed by Hausamen et al. [Clin. Chim. Acta 15, 241 (1967)] with a much larger sample size than used in previous investigations. In the statistical analysis the sample population is subdivided by sex and age, two variable...
journal_title：Clinical chemistry
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00
