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Hyperkalemia/genetics , Hypertension/genetics , Pseudohypoaldosteronism/genetics , Adult , Family Health , Female , Genes, Dominant , Genetic Heterogeneity , Humans , Hyperkalemia/diagnosis , Hypertension/diagnosis , Male , Middle Aged , Pedigree , Phenotype , Pseudohypoaldosteronism/diagnosisABSTRACT
Total urinary protein was measured by five methods: BioRad Total Protein Test (TPT), pyrogallol red, benzethonium chloride, sulfosalicylic acid, trichloroacetic acid, and the results compared to those obtained by a method combining preparative ultrafiltration and the biuret reaction. TPT was linear to 1.5 g protein/l, the detection limit 0.0135 g/l, and it was 3-5 times more sensitive than the other methods. Within-day precision (CV) was 4.3%, (0.60 g/l), the day-to-day precision was 4.5%. The protein contents of 35 selected urine samples assigned to one of five groups according to their electrophoretic pattern were assayed by the five methods. No method accurately measured physiological proteinuria, but the values for light chain (Bence Jones), glomerular, tubular and overload proteinurias measured by TPT did not differ significantly from the biuret value. The other methods differed significantly for at least three groups. Alpha 1 acid glycoprotein slightly inhibited TPT, but peptones, amino acids, antibiotics or normal urine constituents had little or no effect. The TPT method has been automated (Kone Progress); normal 24-h urinary protein excretion was 36 mg/day (range 12-114), the protein creatinine ratio was 34 mg/g (12-106 mg/g).
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Proteinuria/diagnosis , Reagent Kits, Diagnostic , Autoanalysis , Bence Jones Protein/urine , Biuret Reaction/methods , Drug Stability , Evaluation Studies as Topic , Female , Humans , Male , Molybdenum , Pyrogallol , Sensitivity and SpecificityABSTRACT
In this assay we measure the turbidity produced by precipitation of plasma fibrinogen with a reagent composed of ammonium sulfate, EDTA, and guanidine hydrochloride. The two-step reagent addition, and use of fixed reaction times, eliminates interference from bilirubin, hemoglobin, and chylomicrons. We checked 135 monoclonal proteins for interference, finding the probability of encountering major interference in samples from adults to be very low, P = 0.0002. The method is calibrated with purified fibrinogen and the response is linear over the range 0-10 g/L. Within-run precision (CV) is less than 2% from 1 to 10 g/L. Correlations with the immunoturbidimetric (r = 0.99), chronometric (r = 0.99), and clotting (r = 0.97) methods were extremely high.
