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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 25, 1831-1835, Copyright © 1979 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Evaluation of the DuPont aca amylase method

RM Balkcom, CM O'Donnell and E Amano

The dilution/activity curve for the DuPont aca kinetic amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) method is linear to approximately six times the upper limit of the expected range. Total reaction time on the aca is 4.3 min; however, there is a nonlinear rate of change in absorbance for at least the first 8 min, which is consistent with a lag phase. The within-run and day-to-day coefficients of variation were 2.4% at 100 U/L and 3.6% at 114 U/L, respectively. There was no interference by marked hemolysis (hemoglobin 4 g/L) or by glucose concentrations of 10--50 g/L. Comparisons by the split-sample method between the Amylochrome procedure and the aca procedure gave correlation coefficients of 0.992 for serum and 0.989 for urine. A second comparison, between the AutoAnalyzer I method and the aca, gave correlation coefficients of 0.998 for serum and 0.909 for urine. The expected range for serum was 18--106 U/L and for urine 2--33 U/2 h.




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