Assessment of a method for measuring serum thyroxine by radioimmunoassay, with use of polyethylene glycol precipitation. [/sup 125/I tracer technique]
We assessed the efficacy of a new thyroxine radioimmunoassay kit (Abbott) in which polyethylene glycol is used to separate bound from free hormone. Mean serum thyroxine was 88 +- 15 (+-SD) ..mu..g/liter for 96 normal persons. Results for hypothyroid and hyperthyroid persons were clearly separated from those for normal individuals. Women taking oral contraceptive preparations showed variable increases in their serum thyroxine values. The coefficient of variation ranged from 1 to 3% within assay and from 5.4 to 11% among different assays. Excellent parallelism was demonstrated between thyroxine values estimated by this method and those obtained either by competitive protein binding or by a separate radioimmunoassay for the hormone.
- Research Organization:
- General Hospital, St. John's, Newfoundland
- OSTI ID:
- 7323965
- Journal Information:
- Clin. Chem.; (United States), Vol. 23:7
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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