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(Clinical Chemistry. 1998;44:2071-2074.)
© 1998 American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Inc.

AACC 50th Anniversary Retrospective

The Evolution of Immunoassay as Seen Through the Journal Clinical Chemistry

Christopher P. Price

Department of Clinical Biochemistry, St. Bartholomew's, and the Royal London School, of Medicine & Dentistry, Turner Street, London E1 2AD, UK, Fax 171-377-1544, e-mail c.p.price@mds.qmw.ac.uk

A brief historical review shows that the first reference in the Journal to an immunologically based method was in 1962 [in a method for lipoproteins using an immunoprecipitation technique (1)]. In 1962 and 1963, there were two references to enzyme-mediated methods (again the first in the Journal) for glucose and oxalate! In 1965 came the first reference to a competitive protein binding method for thyroxine (2), which was also automated (!). In contrast, in 1966 there was a reference to the effect of ultrasound on isoenzymes! In 1968 came the second reference to an immunologically based assay, this time for growth hormone (3), as well as, in contrast, the use of nuclear magnetic resonance for studying low molecular weight constituents! I mention these other landmark papers because enzyme-mediated and protein-binding assays reflect other examples of biorecognition systems that have also matured with great success (particularly in the case of enzymes) as well as other analytical concepts that in the 1960s may have been considered ahead of their time, in relation to what has been achieved in laboratory medicine. In 1969, papers on immunoassay began to blossom, with more publications on the assessment of thyroid status, the issues of sensitivity in relation to quantification of low concentration proteins in cerebrospinal fluid, and reagent quality control. These early papers should be placed chronologically in the context of the publication on the radioimmunoassay of insulin by Yalow and Berson (4) in 1959 and the measurement of thyroxine by Ekins about that time. Thus, in the first 15 years of the Journal, there were approximately 10 papers on immunologically based assays or their utilization; in 1997 there were in excess of 100 papers in which immunoassay methods were utilized (>35% of the total number of papers . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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