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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 28, 1343-1345, Copyright © 1982 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Free-cortisol assay by immunoextraction: comparison with an equilibrium dialysis procedure

A Clerico, MG Del Chicca, G Zucchelli, C Bartolomei and N Riccioni

We describe a new method for directly determining the apparent free cortisol concentration in plasma samples by use of an antibody-coated test-tube RIA. Buffer-diluted plasma or standard serum is added to antibody-coated test tubes, incubated at 4 degrees C for 4 h, and the solutions are aspirated. 125I-labeled cortisol is added to each tube and incubated for 3 h at 4 degrees C. Then the insides of the tubes are washed and their radioactivities counted. The standard curve is in terms of free cortisol, the standard serum solutions having been measured with an equilibrium dialysis procedure. Plasma samples (n = 155) from normal subjects and from various patients, measured with the new immunoextraction method and the equilibrium dialysis technique, gave results that correlated well (r = 0.847, p less than 0.001). Results by this direct RIA also correlate well with the clinical adrenocortical status of patients for whom data on total plasma cortisol may be misleading. This simple, easy RIA is suited to be the routine method for free cortisol in plasma.


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