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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 28, 427-431, Copyright © 1982 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Incidence and mechanism of spurious increase in serum thyrotropin

PJ Howanitz, JH Howanitz, HV Lamberson and KM Ennis

We previously reported spuriously high values for thyrotropin (TSH), presumably owing to an antibody in human serum that reacts with both reagent rabbit antibodies in an immunoradiometric assay (IRMA). We used this IRMA to measure TSH. Five of 20 sera from laboratory animal handlers showed spuriously high values. When we added 2 mL of nonimmune rabbit serum per liter to the labeled IRMA rabbit antibody reagent and reassayed the five affected specimens, the results were within the reference interval. Smaller additions partly corrected the TSH values, but nonimmune sera of eight other species had no effect. Substitution of goat solid-phase antibody decreased, but did not eliminate, the increases in TSH in three of the five affected sera. Chromatographic properties, results of rheumatoid factor testing, and measurement of human anti-rabbit immunoglobulin suggest that the interference is ascribable to an antibody of the IgG class that reacts with rabbit antibody. Evidently, antibody interference with IRMA procedures may be common in certain populations. It can be avoided by including nonimmune serum corresponding to the species used to produce reagent antibody.


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