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Clinical Chemistry 23: 1264-1267, 1977;
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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 23, 1264-1267, Copyright © 1977 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Radioimmunoassay for free and conjugated urinary metanephrine

RW Lam, R Artal and DA Fisher

We describe a convenient and specific radioimmunoassay for urinary metanephrine, in which we used an antiserum generated in rabbits by injecting with synephrine conjugated to bovine serum albumin as described by Grota and Brown [Endocrinology 98, 615 (1976)]. The antiserum is specific for metanephrine and epinephrine. Epinephrine cross reaction is minimized to 1% by adding 2 ng of epinephrine to each assay tube. Incubation time is 12 h. The sensitivity of the assay is 40 pg. Within-and between-assay coefficients of variation are 7.0 and 9.7%, respectively. We assayed first-voided morning urine and 24-h urine specimens from 15 normal subjects before and after acid hydrolysis, to assess total and free metanephrine concentrations. Mean (+/-SD) total and free urinary metanephrine excretion were 17 +/- 11 and 3.5 +/- 1.0 micrograms/24 h in these subjects; corresponding values for the morning specimens were 13.4 +/- 8.3 and 3.5 +/- 1.5 micrograms/liter, respectively.




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