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Clinical Chemistry 31: 634-636, 1985;
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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 31, 634-636, Copyright © 1985 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Highly sensitive immunoenzymometric assay for human thyrotropin

Y Watanabe, N Amino, H Tamaki, M Aozasa, J Tachi, Y Endo and K Miyai

A sensitive assay procedure for immunoenzymometric assay of serum thyrotropin (TSH) was developed by making several modifications of the Enzymun-Test TSH kit (Boehringer, Mannheim GmbH). Serum samples were first incubated in plastic tubes precoated with monoclonal antibodies specific to the beta subunit of human TSH. After the tubes were washed, the TSH bound to the tubes was detected with peroxidase-conjugated polyclonal antibodies to TSH. The sensitivity of the assay was 0.2 milli-int. unit/L, and the intra-and interassay CVs were less than 10%. Analytical recovery was 96 to 106%. The normal basal range of TSH was 0.5 to 4.8 milli-int. units/L. The basal levels of TSH in all but one of 48 thyrotoxic patients with Graves' disease were less than 0.2 milli- int. unit/L, clearly different from those of normal subjects. Thyrotoxic patients in early normal pregnancy showed TSH concentrations of 1.7 to 2.9 milli-int. units/L by conventional double-antibody radioimmunoassay, possibly from cross reactivity with human choriogonadotropin, but undetectable TSH by this method. Measurement of basal TSH by this sensitive assay can be used as an initial screening test for thyroid dysfunction.




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