Clinical Chemistry AACC Online Job Center
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Clinical Chemistry 14: 449-455, 1968;
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Submit an electronic Letter to
the Editor about this paper
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me when eLetters are posted
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Fales, F. W.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Fales, F. W.

Clinical Chemistry, Vol 14, 449-455, Copyright © 1968 by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Recovery of Uric Acid from Serum

Frank W. Fales 1

1 Clinical Research Center, Emory University School of Medicine; and from the Department of Biochemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. 30322.

Uric acid added to serum is incompletely recovered in tungstic acid filtrates of serum. Contrary to previous views, the poor recovery is not the result of the adsorption of uric acid upon the precipitated protein, nor is it the result of the presence in the filtrates of inhibitors of the color-forming reaction between the sodium carbonate and phosphotungstic acid reagents, and the uric acid. Evidence is presented which implicates adsorption on filter paper as the cause of the poor recovery of uric acid from acid filtrates. Excellent recoveries are obtained when the protein precipitated by tungstic acid is removed by centrifugation.

Accepted on October 29, 1967






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
Copyright © 1968 by the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.