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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 24, 1150-1154, Copyright © 1978 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Continuous-flow determination of bile acids in serum, and its clinical application

F Mashige, T Osuga, N Tanaka, K Imai and M Yamanaka

We describe a highly sensitive and accurate automated continuous-flow method for determining bile acids in serum. The bile acids are first liberated from serum protein by dialysis at alkaline pH and then measured fluorometrically after the following enzymic reaction. Bile acids are converted to 3-oxo bile acids with 3alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (EC 1.1.1.50) with concomitant reduction of NAD+ to NADH. The hydrogen in the generated NADH is transferred by diaphorase (EC 1.6.4.3) to resazurin to yield resorfin, the fluorophore. Only 100 microliter of serum is required and 40 determinations can be done per hour. The CV for 20 replicate determinations in serum with a mean bile acid concentration of 9.8 mumol/liter was 2.6%. The CV for day-to-day variation for another serum on 27 successive days was 3.0% (mean concentration, 10.0 mumol/liter). We applied this method to 826 sera from various diseases; 29% exceeded the upper limit of normal, 10 mumol/liter, and abnormally high values (greater than 20 mumol/liter) were almost exclusively limited to sera from hepatobiliary and enteric disorders.


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