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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 25, 1608-1612, Copyright © 1979 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Rapid analysis of bilirubin in neonatal serum. I. The binding of bilirubin to albumin

KC Lu, KM Gooding and FE Regnier

Evaulation of the severity of jaundice in the neonate may be determined by measuring the reserve binding capacity of serum proteins for free bilirubin. Determination of protein-bound bilirubin has been labor intensive, necessitating multiple runs on gel-permeation chromatography columns or, more recently, enzyme assays or fluorescence quenching analysis. We present a method for quantitation of free bilirubin and of bilirubin-binding capacity of serum by liquid chromatography. A gel- permeation column binds free bilirubin while allowing passage and quantitation of protein-bound bilirubin. Subsequent injection of a desorbing agent releases the adsorbed bilirubin from the column, permitting quantitation of free bilirubin. Bound and free serum bilirubin may be determined directly in less than 15 min using 10 microL of serum. The binding of bilirubin to neonatal serum is seen to be quite different from the binding to adult serum. Ion-exchange chromatography of adult and neonatal serum samples shows that their protein profiles are radically different. This difference probably accounts for the binding characteristics.




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