Use of a quality-control plasma sample to decrease interassay variation in radioimmunoassays of apolipoprotein A-I

Autor: Bruce A. Kottke, Yin Ping T. Au, B. J. Hallaway
Rok vydání: 1986
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Zdroj: Clinical Chemistry. 32:1394-1397
ISSN: 1530-8561
0009-9147
Popis: The apolipoprotein A-I (apo A-I) radioimmunoassay established in our laboratory involves use of purified apo A-I as the primary standard for quantifying apo A-I in plasma and a pooled plasma (quality-control sample) as a secondary standard to decrease interassay variation. The measured values for apo A-I increased over time as the labeled antigen degraded. We observed these results in two separate studies: (a) apo A-I in plasma from 16 subjects was measured 12 times during four months, and (b) apo A-I in a single pooled plasma was measured 48 times during 10 months. We show that use of a quality-control plasma sample as a secondary standard decreased interassay variation, which was, in part, ascribable to degradation of the labeled antigen.
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