Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 45, 726-731, Copyright © 1977 by Endocrine Society

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A non-chromatographic non-extraction radioimmunoassay for serum aldosterone

T Ogihara, K Iinuma, K Nishi, Y Arakawa and A Takagi

A direct radioimmunoassay for serum aldosterone was developed using a highly specific sntibody and 8-anilino-1-naphthalene sulfonic acid as a blocking agent to inhibit the binding of aldosterone to serum proteins. 125I-labeled aldosterone was used as the labeled antigen and polyethylene glycol was used to separate antibody-bound and free aldosterone. The minimum detectable concentration was 1.5 pg/tube. There were excellent correlations between the present method and other methods, i.e., 1) a method using tritiated aldosterone, 2) a method using dichloromethane extraction before assay, and 3) a commercial kit method. The intra-assay coefficient of variation was 6.9%, and the inter-assay coefficient of variation was 10.7%. The values found in normal human serum were comparable with those reported using other methods. The present radioimmunoassay eliminates both extraction of aldosterone from serum and chromatographic separation and requires only 0.1 ml of serum for assay.

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